bourgeoisify

present singular third person bourgeoisifies · participle present bourgeoisifying · participle past bourgeoisified · past bourgeoisified

1. transitiveTo make bourgeois.

   Larkin's contribution to the genre playfully bourgeoisifies the aristocratic conventions […]

   2005, James Booth, chapter 3, in Philip Larkin: The Poet's Plight, Palgrave Macmillan, page 69

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   The workers' militias and police-forces must be preserved in their present form and every effort to "bourgeoisify" them must be resisted.

   1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter V, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC

   For women from 'bourgeoisified' families, the crisis afflicting how they had always seen themselves increasingly manifested itself in minor ailments, sickness, and emotional upset.

   2002, Heiko Haumann, A History of East European Jews, translated by James Patterson, Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, Part III, p. 142