Meanings
grecization1
noungrecization (countable and uncountable, plural grecizations)
plural grecizations
- countableuncountableAlternative letter-case form of Grecization.
Grecization2
nounGrecization (countable and uncountable, plural Grecizations)
plural Grecizations · alternative grecization
- countableuncommonuncountableHellenization.
Sixth, Jones views the spread of Greek as a correlative sign of the civilizing of the east. To Jones, “Grecization” is the result of urbanization.
2005, Jack N. Lightstone, “Urbanization in the Roman East and the Inter-Religious Struggle for Success”, in Richard S[tephen] Ascough, editor, Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Sardis and Smyrna (Studies in Christianity and Judaism; 14), Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, →ISBN, section “Broadening the Context”, page 217
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