modernizing

comparative more modernizing · superlative most modernizing · alternative modernising

1. Reformist; tending to modernize.

   However, it must be remembered that the content of rural education often is not very “modernizing.”

   1970, Douglas Ensminger, Food Enough or Starvation for Millions, page 529

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   In these early stages of political modernization, the military officers play a highly modernizing and progressive role.

   1968, Samuel P. Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies, →ISBN, page 203

   [Gilbert Murray] was not only learned in Greek and Latin, but was a classicist of a particularly modernizing kind.

   2013, Douglas Kerr, “John Buchan, Myth and Modernism”, in Kate Macdonald, Nathan Waddell, editors, John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity, →ISBN, page 143

alternative modernising

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of modernize