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Armenian +‎ -ize

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Armenianize (third-person singular simple present Armenianizes, present participle Armenianizing, simple past and past participle Armenianized)

  1. to make Armenian.
    • 1850, John Mason Neale, A History of the Holy Eastern Church: General introduction. 2 vols, page 270:
      This has no practical use: nor, as it would seem, any symbolical meaning: I think it a mere determination to Armenianize in the matter of the niche.
    • 2015, Amy E. Randall, Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Survey, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
      In addition to always erring on the side of the potential Armenianness of any orphan, authorities at times forced confessions (true or possibly false), and they did occasionally Armenianize Muslim children or ignore when others did.
    • 2016, Lerna Ekmekcioglu, Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 35:
      Ultimately, Haygaz and his friends believed the boy, but they decided that “even if he was a pure-bred Turk, we would keep and Armenianize him gradually.”

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