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republicanize

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To convert (a state etc.) to republican principles.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • France was republicanized.
  • June 14, 1807, Thomas Jefferson, "Letter to John Norvell" He has taken the text of Hume as his ground work, abridging it by the omission of some details of little interest, and wherever he has found him endeavoring to mislead, by either the suppression of a truth or by giving it a false coloring, he has changed the text to what it should be, so that we may properly call it Hume’s history republicanised.

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History

Etymology

From republican + -ize. Compare French républicaniser.