Definition of "modernizing"

In these early stages of political modernization, the military officers play a highly modernizing and progressive role.

1968, Samuel P. Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies, page 203

However, it must be remembered that the content of rural education often is not very “modernizing.”

1970, Douglas Ensminger, Food Enough or Starvation for Millions, page 529

[Gilbert Murray] was not only learned in Greek and Latin, but was a classicist of a particularly modernizing kind.

2013, Douglas Kerr, “John Buchan, Myth and Modernism”, in Kate Macdonald, Nathan Waddell, editors, John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity, page 143