Flemishize

Verb

Flemishize (third-person singular simple present Flemishizes, present participle Flemishizing, simple past and past participle Flemishized)

1. (British, English, Oxford, US) To render or become more Flemish.
   • In Flanders, there has grown up a young literature, enthusiastic for the extirpation from Flemish soil of all that is in any way related to the French language; but, in spite of this revival of the Flemishizing spirit, the proportion of the languages is slowly changing in favor of the French: the...1892, Onésime Reclus, translated by Malvina Antoinette Howe, A bird's-eye view of the world, Boston: Ticknor and Company, page 128
   • It is almost a year ago (Temps, June 27, 1915,) that the German Governor General in Belgium, von Bissing, spread a report to the effect that on the request of some Flemings—no names mentioned, and for good reasons, indeed—he had declared himself willing immediately to Flemishize the Ghent...1916 August 2, A Flemish Belgian, “Vain attempts to divide the Belgians. Attitude of the Flemings Toward Germany as Set Forth by Their True Spokesmen.”, in The New York Times