[f. ASSIMILATE v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. ASSIMILATE; assimilation.

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1779.  Sheridan, Critic, I. i. (1883), 152. The poverty of your own language prevents their assimilating.

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1881.  Daily News, 18 Aug., 6/5. ‘Assimilating of the Law of Exchange.’

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