Definition of Modernizing

1. Verb. (present participle of modernize) ¹

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Definition of Modernizing

1. modernize [v] - See also: modernize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Modernizing

modernist
modernista
modernistas
modernistic
modernists
modernities
modernity
modernizable
modernization
modernizations
modernize
modernized
modernizer
modernizers
modernizes
modernizing (current term)
modernly
modernness
modernnesses
moderns
moders
modes
modes of thought
modest proposal
modest proposals
modester
modestest
modesties
modestly

Literary usage of Modernizing

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

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"11 Sci Am 112: 427 My 8 '15 modernizing the hand-grenade. 11 Lit Digest 50:1015-15 My 1 '15 Throwing grenade bouquets to the enemy. Lit Bache. ..."

2. An Analysis of U. S. Army Helicopter Programs by Frances M. Lussier (1996)
"Programs for modernizing Army Aviation Army's Plan Alternative I Alternative ... Alternatives II and III emphasize modernizing the utility fleet by buying ..."

3. Addresses and Proceedings by National Education Association of the United States, National Teachers' Association (U.S.)., American Normal School Association, Central College Association (1902)
"... to brighter worlds And lead the way.1' TOPIC II: modernizing THE COURSE OF STUDY \VA HESTER, SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, ..."

4. Federalism: The Spanish Experience by Luis Moreno, Moreno Fernández Moreno (1997)
"The weakness of 19th-century modernizing liberalism Napoleonic Spain aimed to combine monarchic despotism, enlightened or not, with the Jacobin ideals of ..."

5. Industrial Education: Its Problems, Methods and Dangers by Albert H. Leake (1913)
"Assuming that these changes, which really mean a modernizing of the system, will be gradually carried out, it is in order to inquire what new types of ..."

6. The Diary of John Evelyn by John Evelyn, Austin Dobson (1906)
"Forster, however, can scarcely be said to have carried out his modernizing as thoroughly as might have been expected. He made little or no attempt to ..."

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