modernizing

adj

1. Reformist; tending to modernize.

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

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

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

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of modernize