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paganize

[ pey-guh-nahyz ]

verb (used with object)

, pa·gan·ized, pa·gan·iz·ing.
  1. to make pagan.


verb (used without object)

, pa·gan·ized, pa·gan·iz·ing.
  1. to become pagan.

paganize

/ ˈpeɪɡəˌnaɪz /

verb

  1. to become pagan, render pagan, or convert to paganism
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈpaganˌizer, noun
  • ˌpaganiˈzation, noun
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Other Words From

  • pagan·i·zation noun
  • un·pagan·ize verb (used with object) unpaganized unpaganizing
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Word History and Origins

Origin of paganize1

First recorded in 1605–15; pagan + -ize
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Example Sentences

“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.”

These Gnostic heresies, which threatened to paganize the Christian Church, were condemned in no measured terms by the fathers.

For if thou art the same elegant paganized son of Abraham thou wast in thine old days, thy debts are as many as thy usurers are scarce.

"Incense"—metaphorically the vain philosophies, traditions and customs, adopted by the false Church that came up in the place of the true Church and paganized itself in order to be popular with the world.

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."

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