Hellenize
verb (used with object)
to make Greek in character.
Hellenizer
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a word derived from
Hellenize.
Example Sentences
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Philo, indeed, viewed from the Jewish standpoint, is the Hellenizer not only of the law but also of the Cabbalah, the philosophical adapter of the secret traditional wisdom of his ancestors.
From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich
It had never occurred to the good man that he was either a Hebraizer or a Hellenizer.
From Matthew Arnold by George William Erskine Russell
The Hebraizer is conscientious but unenlightened; the Hellenizer is clear-headed but unscrupulous.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone
