Normanise

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A form of Normanize — To convert to the language or culture of Normandy.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

verbNormanise (third-person singular simple present Normanises, present participle Normanising, simple past and past participle Normanised)

present singular third person Normanises · participle present Normanising · participle past Normanised · past Normanised

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Normanize.

    It was of passing interest to Bruce that this Highlander chose to Normanise his name thus.

    2011, Nigel Tranter, The Bruce Trilogy
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    His principal fault was apparently too great nationality (it might not be unalloyed with ambition) in resisting Edward's efforts to Normanise this land, and throw all his influence into the hands of Norman nobles.

    1845, Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer, The Church History of Britain, page 380

    The Norman element thus formed in the episcopate was not dominant, can scarcely be conceived as amounting to an attempt to Normanise the Old English Church, and was matched by the other 'foreign' element of Lotharingian bishops within this period.

    1985, R. Allen Brown, The Normans and the Norman Conquest, page 102
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