Definition of Italianising

1. Verb. (present participle of Italianise) ¹

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Definition of Italianising

1. italianise [v] - See also: italianise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Italianising

itacist
itacists
itacolumite
itaconate
itaconates
itaconic
itaconic acid
ital
italianate
italianated
italianates
italianating
italianise
italianised
italianises
italianising (current term)
italianize
italianized
italianizes
italianizing
italic
italicisation
italicisations
italicise
italicised
italicises
italicising
italicization
italicizations
italicize

Literary usage of Italianising

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1855)
"Chamberlain and Tabberer, in italianising Pointed, simple and effective. We should be glad to see other works of these gentlemen. We quote description of 24 ..."

2. The Contemporary Review (1873)
"... more national and the italianising schools were as profound as they were bitter. There were, in reality, three separate .schools of English Catholics. ..."

3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"It is written in pure vernacular, terse and racy if rude, and undefiled by classical pedantry or italianising affectation. Heywood, here as elsewhere, ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1904)
"... house at Bourges before 1453; while, again, a distinct though vague italianising tendency is plainly discernible in the triptych. ..."

5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1879)
"... copied the four witches—italianising then •> went—from Albert Dürer ; which he in turn is believed to have taken * master signing himself W. Instances ..."

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