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unˈchristianize, v.
[un-2 6 c.]
trans. To deprive of the character or status of being Christian; to render unchristian.
a1714M. Henry Treat. Baptism v. Wks. 1853 I. 549/1 To unchurch, unchristianize, unbaptize, all those who are not in every thing of our length. 1746Brit. Mag. 95 Debasing and unchristianizing the more polite and younger Part of the Nation. 1839Morn. Herald 1 July, To enslave the people and un-Christianise the country. 1850Newman Diffic. Anglic. i. i. (1891) I. 24 Why, half the country is unbaptized... Shall the country unchristianize itself? a1878Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. I. 13 Surely this does not unchristianise the already Christian architecture of the soldiers of the Cross.
Hence unˈchristianized ppl. a.1, -izing vbl. n.
1636H. Burton Apology of Appeale 20 The basenesse of Degenerate English Spirits, become so unchristianized, as [etc.]. 1853Bright Sp., Admiss. Jews to Parlt. (1868) 524 Whence this notion or feeling of unchristianising springs. |