modernizing

English

Alternative forms

• modernising

Adjective

modernizing (comparative more modernizing, superlative most modernizing)

1. Reformist; tending to modernize.
   • 1968, Samuel P. Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies, →ISBN, page 203:

     In these early stages of political modernization, the military officers play a highly modernizing and progressive role.

   • 1970, Douglas Ensminger, Food Enough or Starvation for Millions, page 529:

     However, it must be remembered that the content of rural education often is not very “modernizing.”

   • 2013, Douglas Kerr, “John Buchan, Myth and Modernism”, in Kate Macdonald, Nathan Waddell, editors, John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity, →ISBN, page 143:

     [Gilbert Murray] was not only learned in Greek and Latin, but was a classicist of a particularly modernizing kind.

Verb

modernizing

1. present participle and gerund of modernize