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indigenize
  1. To bring something under the control of an indigenous people
  2. Examples:
    1. “Similarly, Protestant hymnody used in various missionary contexts has undergone transformations in which new meanings yielded the power to indigenize and resist.”
      “The first action requires the Russian Methodist Church, while continuing to indigenize, to remain in close partnership with global denominational efforts.”
      “After 1963 Malaysian leaders sought to indigenize and unify their society by adopting the Malay language as the medium of instruction in schools beyond the primary level and by teaching English only as a second language.”
indigenise
  1. Alternative form of indigenize
  2. Examples:
    1. “Following this principle, Hong Kong was a city that absorbed influences from the West and went on to localise and indigenise foreign cultures.”
      “Indigenisation is good, but too often missionaries, in their desire to indigenise the newly-planted churches, rush into appointing men who turn out to be unsuitable.”
indigenises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of indigenise
indigenizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of indigenize
indigenised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of indigenise
indigenized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of indigenize
  2. Examples:
    1. “The indigenized Canadian constitutes a specific refinement in the ideology of whiteness.”
      “The particular concern for biblical translators is how not to lose sight of the richness of indigenized English.”
      “From a practitioner's viewpoint, an indigenized Indian psychology often means incorporating Indian techniques such as yoga and meditation into psychotherapy.”
indigenising
  1. present participle of indigenise
  2. Examples:
    1. “He also started indigenising his group by launching a major recruitment drive in the Valley.”
      “In indigenising English, as so many people have done in so many nations across the world, we have made the language our own.”
indigenizing
  1. present participle of indigenize
  2. Examples:
    1. “Over the last decade, large and medium-sized Chinese industrial firms have spent less than 10 percent of the total cost of imported equipment on indigenizing technology.”
      “In a reciprocal manner, the landscape was indigenizing the snowshoers.”
      “He recalls Pero's leadership in articulating and clarifying the challenge of indigenizing the Lutheran tradition in African-American and other communities of color.”
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