[f. next + -ATION.] The action of familiarizing in various senses; an instance of this.
1755. H. T. Croker, Orl. Fur., I. Preface, p. vi. By familiarization we reduce the force of formidable objects, found my purpose not affected by his scheme of forbiddance.
1765. Miss C. Talbot, in Miss Carter, Lett. (1809), III. 126. I would … read to it with proper familiarisations the most striking parts.
1836. T. E. Hook, Gilbert Gurney, II. i. 99. There can be no question that a constant familiarization with such scenes blunts the feelings, if it does not harden the heart.
1888. Sweet, Eng. Sounds, 45. The familiarization of foreign words.
