Meanings
- uncountableThe process of Bostonizing.
Does Bostonization of the national literary class imply the formation of a national literary center?
2000, The North Carolina Historical Review, volume 77, number 2, page 2591 more example
The "Bostonization" of New York's hitherto anti-institutionalist charities and inheritance laws created the basis for the establishment of the large unregulated endowed institutions — especially foundations — on which the twentieth-century Establishment built its power.
1992, George E. Marcus, Peter Dobkin Hall, Lives in trust, page 354
Origin
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