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Definition of Catholicizing
1. catholicize [v] - See also: catholicize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catholicizing
Literary usage of Catholicizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thoughts on the Present Position of Protestantism by Adolf von Harnack (1899)
"They may be described in one word as the progressive catholicizing of the ...
They will make clear in what sense the word catholicizing is to be here ..."
2. The Works of Orestes A. Brownson by Orestes Augustus Brownson, Henry Francis Brownson (1884)
"To oppose to it the catholicizing party is* only to call in the Saxons to expel the
... for the catholicizing party need only the courage to be consistent, ..."
3. The Freedom of Authority: Essays in Apologetics by James Macbride Sterrett (1905)
"The following are the danger signals that alarm him.2 They are signals "of the
progressive catholicizing (Romanizing) of the Protestant Churches" in Germany ..."
4. The New Era (1873)
"... or catholicizing process. Such, however, iä not the case. We have before us
the condition of society, as it is and ever has been in Roman Catholic ..."