See citify in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1946, Harper's Magazine, volume 192:",
"text": "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.\"",
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"text": "Harness racing was being citified by crooked lawyers.",
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"ref": "1989, David R. Kinsley, The Goddesses' Mirror: Visions of the Divine from East and West:",
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"ref": "2005, John Michael Archer, Citizen Shakespeare: freemen and aliens in the language of the plays, page 97:",
"text": "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.",
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