Meaning of japonise | Babel Free

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Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe japoniser.

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Examples

“But Japanese political predominance, and constant intercourse during three centuries, have⟳ almost japonised the island.”

“Not methods alone are borrowed wholesale, but even plots, the proper names which occur⟳ in the stories being slightly japonised, as Shimizu for Smith, Risa for Eliza, and details being altered so as to suit⟳ Japanese social conditions.”

“But japonise it into Benkei and the difficulty vanishes, to say⟳ nothing of the apparent prop given to the story of Yoshitsune's visit⟳ to Yezo, by the fact of the name⟳ of his celebrated henchman Benkei thus figuring in the geography of the island.”

“She must either "Japonise" her modernism more thoroughly, or else understand⟳ all the associations that are linked, in the Occident, to certain objects. But what on earth is the use⟳ of Christmas in Japan?”

“It can destroy⟳ or it can build⟳ up Character, it can Americanise, Japonise, Germanise, the world.”

“Not only so:—they wish⟳ to Japonise Christianity itself, in essence as well as in outward form⟳, and seem inclined to throw⟳ over-board even that minimum of dogma on which the Protestant missionaries feel⟳ bound to insist”

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