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What is the noun for grecizing?

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Greek

(countable) An inhabitant, resident, or a person of descent from Greece.
(US, countable) A member of a college fraternity or sorority, which are commonly characterised by being named after Greek letters. (See also Greek system)
(uncountable) Unintelligible speech or text, such as foreign speech or text, or regarding subjects the listener is not familiar with, such as mathematics or technical jargon; or statements that the listener does not understand or agree with.
(archaic) A cunning rogue; a merry fellow.
Synonyms:

Hellene

Examples:

“My coworker is a Greek and always speaks fondly of his homeland.”

Grecian

(obsolete) A native or inhabitant of Greece.
(obsolete) A Jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist.
(obsolete) One well versed in the Greek language, literature, or history.
(obsolete, slang) An Irish labourer newly arrived on the British mainland.

Grecism

A word or idiom of the Greek language used in another language, especially for literary effect.
The style, spirit or other characteristics of Greek arts and culture, or an imitation of that style.

grecque

An ornament supposed to be of Greek origin, especially a fret or meander.
A vessel with a perforated bottom for making coffee without grounds.
Examples:

“Then he would turn away to the portrait of his dead Lise, who with hair curled a la grecque looked tenderly and gaily at him out of the gilt frame.”

Greeklessness

The quality of largely or wholly lacking any mastery of any form of the Greek language.

Greekling

A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions.

Grecianship

The state of being a Grecian (a senior pupil at Christ's Hospital School).

Greekness

The state or condition of being Greek.

Grecianness

(rare) The quality of being Grecian.

Greekess

(archaic) A female Greek.

Greeks

plural of Greek
(finance) The quantities representing the sensitivity of the price of derivatives to a change in underlying parameters on which the value of an instrument or portfolio is dependent (so called because some are denoted by Greek letters).
Synonyms:

Examples:

“Greeks show they've clocked a pretty woman by stroking their fingers across their own chins.”

“From the Greeks, we learned that determination easily trumps the banter of cynics.”

“Greeks like Aristotle, who opposed atomism, equated it with a blind desire to abnegate the governance of Nature in favour of pure chance.”

Greeklings

plural of Greekling

Greekesses

plural of Greekess

Grecisms

plural of Grecism

grecques

plural of grecque

Grecians

plural of Grecian

greece

(obsolete) plural of gree
Examples:

“But the Swede has seen the side he has fashioned win their first five matches, including vital qualifiers against Finland, Albania and Greece.”

“Prince Philip was granted arms by George VI, which quartered the arms of Greece, Denmark, Mountbatten and Edinburgh.”

“I was not with her in Greece but the press reports of her remarks seem abundantly clear.”

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