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christianisation

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See Christianization, Christianize.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun conversion to Christianity

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Examples

  • To me, calling someone a Pict, is like a modern person calling someone a 'goth' or something of that sort. i.e. it does not denote a specific geographical kingdom, but rather a pagan culture dotted about in various places that was open to a degree of christianisation but on its own terms, retaining its rich symbolic and mythical culture.

    Pictish female names Carla 2010

  • The bitter anti-clericalism and hostility to Christianity that inspired the law derived from the French Enlightenment and the bloody de-christianisation programme undertaken during the heyday of the Revolution.

    Sarkozy, Benedict and the case for 'positive secularism' Burke's Corner 2008

  • The bitter anti-clericalism and hostility to Christianity that inspired the law derived from the French Enlightenment and the bloody de-christianisation programme undertaken during the heyday of the Revolution.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Burke's Corner 2008

  • The present war is the result of the de-christianisation of Europe, and de-christianisation of Europe's Church.

    The Agony of the Church (1917) Nikolai Velimirovi�� 1918

  • VII (1878) 152-64; HAVET, Les origines de saint Denis in Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes (Paris, 1890), p. 25; DUFOURCQ, La christianisation des foules dans l'Empire romain in Revue d'histoire et de littérature religieuses, IV (Paris, 1899), 239; AMPÈRE,

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

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