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 Powys, John Cowper
“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
When it had not actually a mythologic subject to deal with, it paganized Christian themes.
From Italian Journeys by Howells, William Dean
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 Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
A dual point of view was attempted in a work, licensed in January, 1600, which pretended to be "a commendation of true poetry, and a discommendation of all bawdy, ribald, and paganized poets."
From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Spingarn, Joel Elias
Cyril represented the paganizing, Nestor the philosophizing party of the Church.
From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by Draper, John William
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 Crummell, Alexander
Plotinus wrote against the paganizing Christians, or Gnostics.
From Letters on Literature by Lang, Andrew
When the genuine works of our worthy became known to the Jews, Yosippon was regarded as the true representative of the Jewish point of view against the paganizing traitor.
From Josephus by Bentwich, Norman
Nor could they treat of Christianity without paganizing it.
From The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Burckhardt, Jacob
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