modernization

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From modernize + -ation or French modernisation.

After all, the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo commemorated the nineteenth-century emperor who began Japan's modernization. — The Samurai Strategy, Thomas Hoover
His Fables--modernizations from Chaucer and translations from Boccaccio, written the year before he died--are among his best works. — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
There is also some resemblance in his contemporaneous materials, or modernization, to scenes in Fielding's own later plays, and in his novels. — The Lovers Assistant; Or, New Art of Love, Henry Fielding

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