paganize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
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He would paganize, Latinize and Mediterraneanize the genius of Europe.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys
“He believes that the institutions of a technocratic market society are neutral zones that should, in theory, accommodate both traditional Christianity and the libertine ways and paganized ideology of the other side.”
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 12, 2019
By such almost unconscious dialectics, the people worked at sifting out the rules for a society paganized by sheer information and searching for a moral grid.
From Time Magazine Archive
THE policy of the Byzantine court had given to primitive Christianity a paganized form, which it had spread over all the idolatrous populations constituting the empire.
From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John William Draper
The Church itself was paganized, but the barbarians were in time Christianized.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
What know we of this paganized young Jew?
From The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem by Frank X. Leyendecker
I should meet the paganizing tendencies of advancing years with security if I could be forearmed with all the weapons of a sanctified life.
From Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Edmund Gosse
Nor could they treat of Christianity without paganizing it.
From The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
Plotinus wrote against the paganizing Christians, or Gnostics.
From Letters on Literature by Andrew Lang
Paganizing themselves, they sought a deeper paganizing of their serfs than the original paganism that these had brought from Africa.
From Civilization the Primal Need of the Race The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3 by Alexander Crummell
Cyril represented the paganizing, Nestor the philosophizing party of the Church.
From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John William Draper
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