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English
Etymology
From ambition + -ize.
Verb
ambitionize (third-person singular simple present ambitionizes, present participle ambitionizing, simple past and past participle ambitionized)
- To make or become ambitious.
1869, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil:Here is the Rua do Alecrim, consisting of a dismantled hut on one side, faced by seven poor tenements, of which one, by affecting a square box as an upper story, ambitionizes the title of " Sobradinho."
1918, Bankers Magazine - Volume 97, page 742:The “Y” man Americanizes the foreigner and ambitionizes the American
1919, Health Department Bulletin - Volumes 9-11, page 27:Some of these families might be cured in six months; others it might take a year to Americanize, “sanitanize” and “ambitionize”.