stalwartize

Etymology

From stalwart + -ize.

stalwartize means to make stalwart. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

verb

To make stalwart.“The Administration has been goaded by the charges made in and out of Congress that it has been trying to “stalwartize" the party by removals in the civil service, into publishing a sort of schedule of the President's doings in that field.”