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Christianize

[ US /ˈkɹɪstʃəˌnaɪz/ ]
VERB
  1. convert to Christianity
    missionaries have tried to Christianize native people all over the world
  2. adapt in the name of Christianity
    some people want to Christianize ancient pagan sites

How To Use Christianize In A Sentence

  • In principle, there was nothing that could not be absorbed into this radically Christianized world.
  • Heschel successfully demonstrates that Geiger's project was one of inversion - not to Christianize Judaism but to Judaize Christianity.
  • Our elite culture has been de-Christianized, and the notional faith that I heard preached from the pulpit in Trinity that day amounted to pure concession, Unitarianism in vestments.
  • The Roman poets were read at school, and allegorism Christianized them — not only Vergil but also Ovid. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • To smack down things they disagree with, to crush evil opponents, to de-Christianize anything that contradicts their views. Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: Profiles in (Evolutionary) Courage, Part 3: Respecting Science While Honoring Faith
  • Because earlier this month the city of Oxford decided to de-Christianize its annual display of Christmas lights by renaming it the "WinterLight" festival. The Register's Daily Blog
  • At this point, after 1519, the New World received bozales, or slaves brought directly from Africa without being christianized. Blacks In Mexico - A Brief Overview
  • missionaries have tried to Christianize native people all over the world
  • Alas! in her over-reaching arrogance she has, on the contrary, set out to de-Christianize, de-civilize, and even de-humanize the race for which Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers
  • At that time (for the world was not yet Christianized) there flourished a race of teachers and philosophers known as Stoics -- wise old pagans, who held that the perfect man must be free from passion, unmoved by either joy or grief, taking every thing just as it came, with supreme and utter indifference. Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times
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