verb
- to make Prussian in character, style, or methods; to impose Prussian military discipline, organization, or ideology
Usage: chiefly British spelling (American: prussianizing); historical; often used critically or disapprovingly
Examples
- The reformers accused the government of prussianising the education system with rigid discipline.
- Critics warned that the new military training program was prussianising the youth.
- The headmaster's strict policies were seen as prussianising the school's culture.
- Historians debated whether the 19th-century reforms were truly prussianising European institutions.
- The general's approach to leadership was criticized for prussianising the entire regiment.