Frenchize

English

Alternative forms

• Frenchise

Etymology

French +‎ -ize

Verb

Frenchize (third-person singular simple present Frenchizes, present participle Frenchizing, simple past and past participle Frenchized)

1. To make or become more French; to make or become more like France, the French language, or French-speaking people.

   Synonym: gallicize

   • 1849 April, Park Benjamin, “The Recluse. No. I”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art, volume 34, number 4:

     But I shall not twist the English language out of all shape and comeliness; I shall not Germanize and Frenchize and Italianize; I shall express my ideas in the simplest possible words; I shall always choose the Saxon rather than the Norman; I shall endavor to write so that "he who runs may read."

   • 1926, Educational Administration & Supervision - Volume 12, page 231:

     The French-Canadian does not Frenchize. In Canada, for three centuries, he has been hemmed in by English and Scotch colonists and he has never Frenchized any one. He comes from a stock to whom the thought is repugnant of making French out of any less fine material.

   • 1931, John Green Sims, Is [the] truth wicked?, page 36:

     Resolved, that the government should "Fordize," or Kulturize, the necessarily large-scale occupations in a way that would more or less "French-ize" America; Resolved, that individuals not wait for the government to "Frenchize."

   • 2015, Matthew Hayday, So They Want Us to Learn French:

     Mallory saw all of this as part of a giant plot of Quebec nationalists to seize control of the government and “Frenchize” Canada with the support of the “mother country” of France.