Definition of Frenchification

1. Noun. (context impolite slang) The act of Frenchifying. ¹

2. Noun. (context impolite slang) Something Frenchified. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Frenchification

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frenchification

fremit
fremits
fremitus
fremituses
frena
frenal
french
french-fried potatoes
french-fry
french fries
french letter
french letters
french pressure cell
frenched
frenches
frenchification
frenchified
frenchifies
frenchifying
frenching
frenchise
frenchises
frenectomies
frenectomy
frenemies
frenemy
frenetic
frenetical
frenetically
freneticism

Literary usage of Frenchification

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

1. Incantation of the Law Against Inept Critics: A Guide to Cryptic Thinking by Morten St. George (2006)
"Let's not forget that a general recourse was the frenchification of Latin words ... Based on frenchification techniques used elsewhere, there is only one ..."

2. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Jesuits, Reuben Gold Thwaites (1901)
"... 6, 85-89, 7, 265, 287, 297, 9, 1o3-1o5, 223, 11, 53, 95, 16, 255, 47, 241 ; Frenchification and effect upon, 9, 1o3, 1o7, 223, 10, 27, 11, 49, 93-95. ..."

3. The Schools of Medieval England by Arthur Francis Leach (1915)
"... probably due, not to any reactionary tendencies in his educational views, but by way of deliberate counterbalance to the Frenchification and monasticism ..."

4. Belgium: A Personal Narrative by Brand Whitlock (1919)
"They were received by the Chancel- where French influences pursued the work of Frenchification. Obviously, it is a great and difficult problem to enlarge ..."

5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1899)
"If Miss Clavering managed to get out any of the Frenchification, there must have been a great deal to begin with, for French phrases are sprinkled as if out ..."

6. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"5) blames this, as a mere affectation of Frenchification, but he allows that the stanza often occasions languid and useless epithets, vain circumlocutions, ..."

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