Anglify

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verb

To convert to English (language or culture); to anglicise.

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Meanings

verbAnglify (third-person singular simple present Anglifies, present participle Anglifying, simple past and past participle Anglified)

present singular third person Anglifies · participle present Anglifying · participle past Anglified · past Anglified

  1. transitiveTo convert to English (language or culture); to anglicise.

    Englishmen speak to their servants in French, and the shops are all French; indeed I should think that Calais or Boulogne was much more Anglified

    1860, Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology […]
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    Why should Pennsylvania […] become a Colony of aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us, instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our language or customs, any more than they can acquire our complexion?

    1751, Benjamin Franklin, Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc.

Origin

From Latin Anglus (“Englishman”) + -ify.

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APA

Anglify. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Anglify

MLA

“Anglify.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Anglify. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Anglify,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Anglify.

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