Citify vs Citification - What's the difference?
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(informal) To become more like or more in the character of a city.
* 1946 , , Volume 192,
* 1970 , , Hearings, reports and prints of the House Committee on Appropriations ,
* 2010 , Dr Dan Budenz, Analyzing Monsters - Family Cures: The Drew Peterson Saga , page 105,
(slang) To make more like or more in the character of a city.
* 1975 , Robert Lipsyte, Sportsworld: an American Dreamland ,
* 1989 , David R. Kinsley, The Goddesses' Mirror: Visions of the Divine from East and West ,
* 1995 , , Volume 187,
(informal) To make more like a city person.
* 2005 , John Michael Archer, Citizen Shakespeare: freemen and aliens in the language of the plays , page 97:
* 2007 , Matthew Desmond, On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters ,
Citification is a related term of citify.
As a verb citify
is to become more like or more in the character of a city.As a noun citification is
making something urban.citify
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Verb
(en-verb)- The metropolis grows like a tree in concentric circles, rim upon rim, the inner rings hardening or "citifying " and the outer bark expanding or "urbanizing."
- The United States of America is not yet a jungle of metropolitan areas, but we are citifying at a very rapid pace.
- My wife and I happened to have fought with authorities to address the extremely dangerous roads throughout this citifying rural community.
- Harness racing was being citified by crooked lawyers.
- In her role as a citifying presence, Athena often is associated with political structures, the administration of justice, and the arts of persuasion, such as rhetoric.
- "But these newcomers are citifying' the rural atmosphere." They're also ' citifying prices.
- In taking his gage from a prostitute in the London stews, he appropriates in a burlesque mode the faltering aristocratic rituals that Richard and his father try to manage. He citifies them, or reveals how they have already been invaded by city modes of violence and desire in the history world.
- I reacted to my well-to-do peers, with the help of my roommate and best friend John, by sissifying and citifying them.