Frenchize

present singular third person Frenchizes · participle present Frenchizing · participle past Frenchized · past Frenchized · alternative Frenchise

1. To make or become more French; to make or become more like France, the French language, or French-speaking people.

   Mallory saw all of this as part of a giant plot of Quebec nationalists to seize control of the government and “Frenchize” Canada with the support of the “mother country” of France.

   2015, Matthew Hayday, So They Want Us to Learn French

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   But I shall not twist the English language out of all shape and comeliness; I shall not Germanize and Frenchize and Italianize; I shall express my ideas in the simplest possible words; I shall always choose the Saxon rather than the Norman; I shall endavor to write so that "he who runs may read."

   1849 April, Park Benjamin, “The Recluse. No. I”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art, volume 34, number 4

   The French-Canadian does not Frenchize. In Canada, for three centuries, he has been hemmed in by English and Scotch colonists and he has never Frenchized any one. He comes from a stock to whom the thought is repugnant of making French out of any less fine material.

   1926, Educational Administration & Supervision - Volume 12, page 231

   Resolved, that the government should "Fordize," or Kulturize, the necessarily large-scale occupations in a way that would more or less "French-ize" America; Resolved, that individuals not wait for the government to "Frenchize."

   1931, John Green Sims, Is [the] truth wicked?, page 36

   Synonyms: gallicize