stalwartize

English

Etymology

stalwart +‎ -ize

Verb

stalwartize (third-person singular simple present stalwartizes, present participle stalwartizing, simple past and past participle stalwartized)

1. To make stalwart.
   • 1882, The Nation - Volume 35, page 22:

     The Administration has been goaded by the charges made in and out of Congress that it has been trying to “stalwartize" the party by removals in the civil service, into publishing a sort of schedule of the President's doings in that field.

   • 1882, United States. Congress, Congressional Record:

     In a word, the Executive and those from whom he takes advice have undertaken the peculiar task of stalwartizing the Republican party, and that too when the very name of stalwart has become a reproach.

   • 2010, Gerald Carson, The Social History of Bourbon, page 118:

     He represented the chief hope of "stalwartizing" the state.