modernizing

Reformist; tending to modernize.

Adjective

  1. Reformist; tending to modernize.
    • In these early stages of political modernization, the military officers play a highly modernizing and progressive role. - 1968, Samuel P. Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies, →ISBN, page 203:
    • However, it must be remembered that the content of rural education often is not very “modernizing.” - 1970, Douglas Ensminger, Food Enough or Starvation for Millions, page 529:
    • [Gilbert Murray] was not only learned in Greek and Latin, but was a classicist of a particularly modernizing kind. - 2013, Douglas Kerr, “John Buchan, Myth and Modernism”, in Kate Macdonald, Nathan Waddell, editors,...

Forms

more modernizing most modernizing modernising

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of modernize

Forms

modernising