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US
/ˈkɹɪstʃəˌnaɪz/
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VERB
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convert to Christianity
missionaries have tried to Christianize native people all over the world -
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.
- To do so would, but unchristianize the deep grief which bereavement awakens, and which true piety sanctifies; it would unhumanize the very constitution of home itself. The Christian Home
- The superciliary ridges are prominent, but as the hair of the eyebrows is constantly kept shaved, there is not such an impression of prominence as in the Christianized Mandáyas of the southeastern seaboard of The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
- Believing he had been called by God to Christianize Ireland, he joined the Catholic Church and studied for 15 years before being consecrated as the church's second missionary to Ireland.
- If we ponder this thought, we shall perhaps discover the reason for the mysterious accord between works of Catholic inspiration, like those of my friend Graham Greene, and the vast dechristianized public that devours his books and loves his films. François Mauriac - Banquet Speech
- If the bold scheme could be carried through there would again be a Roman emperor in the West, Latin Christianity would stand strong and unified against schismatic Byzantium and threatening Saracens, and, by the awe and magic of the imperial name, barbarized Europe might reach back across centuries of darkness, and inherit and Christianize the civilization and culture of the ancient world. Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814
- The attempts to de-Christianize Christmas are as absurd as they are relentless. Daimnation!: In defence of Christmas
- His family was trying to De-Christianize him.
- Recently, conservative and evangelical observers have been loudly complaining about what they call a campaign to de-Christianize Christmas, to unmoor it from its origin as the birthday of Christ. December 2005
- We've been asked time and time again to de-Christianize our Apologia science curriculum.