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Definition of Heathenize
1. v. t. To render heathen or heathenish.
Definition of Heathenize
1. Verb. (transitive) To render heathen; to convert to heathenism. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heathenize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heathenize
Literary usage of Heathenize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Papers on Parish Problems by William Alexander Granger (1919)
"So if we do not Christianize these strangers within our gates, they will heathenize
us. Failing to do what we ought to do for them, what God expects us to ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1814)
"... and the recumbent effigy of monumental alabaster was the only authorized model
for the sculptor, who seldom ventured to heathenize the tomb, ..."
3. Author's & Printer's Dictionary: A Guide for Authors by Frederick Howard Collins (1912)
"to be in arabic figures, as 71° F. heathenize*, not -ise. heather-bell* (bot.), an
Erica (hyphen). heave ho !* (two words). Heaven, cap. when equivalent to ..."
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