Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See naturalization, naturalize.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
naturalization .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship
- noun changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology
- noun the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous
- noun the quality of being brought into conformity with nature
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Examples
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The King wished that this opinion and this portrait should go straight into Germany, and create there a kind of naturalisation and adoption for his son.
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I felt the "naturalisation" of the "Roses of Midnight" would prove a difficult task.
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Italian life and manners; his actors belong by birth, or by a kind of naturalisation, to the colony of the American artists in Rome; and he therefore does not labour under the difficulty of being in imperfect sympathy with his creatures.
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868
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The King wished that this opinion and this portrait should go straight into Germany, and create there a kind of naturalisation and adoption for his son.
Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Volume 6 Fran��oise-Ath��na��s de Rochechouart de Mortemart Montespan 1674
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The King wished that this opinion and this portrait should go straight into Germany, and create there a kind of naturalisation and adoption for his son.
Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Complete Fran��oise-Ath��na��s de Rochechouart de Mortemart Montespan 1674
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Mr Prime Minister, for them - those who came legally - I automatically accept any kind of naturalisation procedure.
THIS IS NOT MY COUNTRY deviousdiva 2010
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I guess in the end it was some desire to have that stated plainly that pushed me into the arduous task of applying for "naturalisation".
MikeMarqusee.com Mike Marqusee 2010
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They also include the systematic political discrimination against the Shi'a both via their exclusion from positions of power in government and defence institutions, and through the practice of sectarian-based gerrymandering of electoral districts and manipulation of Bahrain's demographic makeup through political naturalisation of foreigners and extension of voting rights to Sunni citizens of other countries.
Azadeh Shahshahani: The Bahrain 'Spring': The Revolution That Wasn't Televised Azadeh Shahshahani 2011
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They also include the systematic political discrimination against the Shi'a both via their exclusion from positions of power in government and defence institutions, and through the practice of sectarian-based gerrymandering of electoral districts and manipulation of Bahrain's demographic makeup through political naturalisation of foreigners and extension of voting rights to Sunni citizens of other countries.
Azadeh Shahshahani: The Bahrain 'Spring': The Revolution That Wasn't Televised Azadeh Shahshahani 2011
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The artist related his acceptance of the Order of the Companions Honour in 1983 and the Order of Merit in 1993 to his family's debt to Britain, the country that allowed them naturalisation in 1939.
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