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Anglify

Anglify verb: to convert to English (language or culture); to anglicise.

Verb

Anglify (third-person singular simple present Anglifies, present participle Anglifying, simple past and past participle Anglified)

  1. (transitive) To convert to English (language or culture); to anglicise.
    • Why should Pennsylvania […] become a Colony of aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us, instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our language or customs, any more than they can acquire our complexion?1751, Benjamin Franklin, Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc.
    • Englishmen speak to their servants in French, and the shops are all French; indeed I should think that Calais or Boulogne was much more Anglified1860, Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology […]

Forms of Anglify

third-person singular presentAnglifies
present participleAnglifying
past participleAnglified
pastAnglified

Origin of Anglify

From Latin Anglus (“Englishman”) + -ify.

Questions about Anglify

What does Anglify mean?
Anglify means to convert to English (language or culture); to anglicise.
What part of speech is Anglify?
Anglify is a verb.
What is the past tense of Anglify?
The past tense of Anglify is Anglified.

Words near Anglify in the dictionary

  1. Anglicè
  2. Anglicé
  3. Anglification
  4. Anglified
  5. Anglifies
  6. Anglify
  7. Anglifying
  8. anglimaniac
  9. anglimaniacs
  10. Anglin
  11. angling

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