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Christianized

Meaning

of Christianize

Source: Webster's dictionary

Examples

THAT some desperate wretches should be willing to steal and enslave men by violence and murder for gain, is rather lamentable than strange. But that many civilized, nay, christianized people should approve, and be concerned in the savage practice, is surprising. Thomas Paine

According to the Pope Gregory I 's letters, in the island co-existed a Romanized and Christianized area (that of the provinciales) with, in the interior, pagan or semi-pagan cultures (Gens Barbaricina). Source: Internet

Although nominally Christianized in the 18th century, the Evenki people maintain many of their historical beliefs—especially shamanism (Vasilevich, 624). Source: Internet

As for his attempt to “save the OT,” he stated clearly his motive: “it is National-Socialist as a preoccupation solely with a Germanized and Christianized Old Testament.” Source: Internet

Frazer also put forth that Samhain had been the pagan Celtic festival of the dead and that it had been Christianized as All Saints and All Souls. Source: Internet

However, Zosimus also suggests that this attempt by pagans to restore public worship failed due to lack of public interest, suggesting that Rome had been successfully Christianized in the last century. Source: Internet

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