Continentalize

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

To broaden or narrow in scope or focus so that the domain becomes the continent..

Definitions by Sense

1. To broaden or narrow in scope or focus so that the domain becomes the continent.
2. To spread throughout the continent.
3. To make or become more culturally European.
4. To visit Europe.
5. To make into a continent.

Example Sentences

He who would continentalize our education would continentalize our history. I do not think that we shall be continentalized; I think that the movement has failed.

Used in connection with Christianity, as in the title of a well-known book, Pan-Americanism in Its Religious Aspect, it provincializes, or at best, continentalizes what is by nature universal.

In defense of the treaties, it may be stated that they will continentalize the Monroe doctrine, that in a case like that cited above, all the Americas will unite to drive out the intruder.

To continentalize our economies and cultures now would be a victory for the right, for such action would only serve to strengthen the already immense power of American-owned multinational corporations on a continental basis and would shatter the existing socialist elements in our agrarian west, our trade unions and our political parties.

[Norris] was one of the least sectional of American novelists, with a vision of his native land which attached him to the movement, then under discussion to "continentalize" American literature by breaking up the parochial habits of the local colour school.

The increased continental consciousness of multinationals has pushed them to continentalize their operations; that is, rationalize manufacturing and other functions on a continental basis.

Such seawater-displacing ice sheets would contibute to a global O enrichment in the oceans and would further continentalize the climates of northern Europe, Asia, and North America but would not contribute significantly to reducing eustatic sea level.

On the other hand, during summer the air circulation is intensified by the activity of the Azoric anticyclone which brings to our country important quantities of humid air which, however, continentalizes gradually towards east.

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• continentalizes
• continentalizing
• continentalized
• continentalise

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