Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The process of making non-Christian; a breaking down of Christianity.
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- noun The act of
dechristianizing ; the systematic removal ofChristianity orChristian elements.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Like his brother, he did not support the dechristianization movement, but he was critical of the excessive violence of the Terror.
Names 2007
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A sidelight to the whole matter was that the agents-provocateurs were certainly out in force and the Masonic element was well represented whenever the situation took a turn for the worse, especially at the time of the dechristianization, culminating in the placing of the prostitute on the altar of Notre-Dame.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Hébert (1757-94) supported the dechristianization movement, the atheism of which Robespierre vehemently opposed.
Annotations 2007
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Voltaire's legacy also cemented the alleged linkage that joined positivist science on the one hand with secularizing disenchantment and dechristianization on the other in the progressive modernization of the world.
Voltaire Shank, JB 2009
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The link between family and agrarian system will help us to understand why dechristianization gained ground, from 1791 onwards, in regions of large farms and share-cropping, and met with resistance in provinces where tenant farming and peasant proprietorship were predominant.
France as a "nation" Daniel Little 2009
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A sidelight to the whole matter was that the agents-provocateurs were certainly out in force and the Masonic element was well represented whenever the situation took a turn for the worse, especially at the time of the dechristianization, culminating in the placing of the prostitute on the altar of Notre-Dame.
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Beginning of dechristianization campaign; Festival of Reason in Notre Dame (10 November) 4 December
Chronology 2007
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The link between family and agrarian system will help us to understand why dechristianization gained ground, from 1791 onwards, in regions of large farms and share-cropping, and met with resistance in provinces where tenant farming and peasant proprietorship were predominant.
Archive 2009-01-01 Daniel Little 2009
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The dechristianization of France began with the sacrilege of the Church in it's people, to its buildings and the institution of a radically different replacement.
Archive 2008-05-04 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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The dechristianization of France began with the sacrilege of the Church in it's people, to its buildings and the institution of a radically different replacement.
The Cathedral of Notre Dame and Robespierre de Brantigny........................ 2008
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