Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of Hellenizing, or the state of being imbued with Greek ideas or methods. Also spelled
Hellenisation .
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Examples
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This is an ancient teaching, too, not the result of “hellenization” as you seem to imply.
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His conquest intensified the political and cultural hellenization of Serbia.
1329 2001
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But the gradual hellenization of those regions, as well as the founding of numerous Greek monasteries, must have affected liturgical life.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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The Christianization and hellenization of the Slavs was now begun, and soon produced rich fruits.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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The latinizing of the island continued, though the Greek element never entirely disappeared, so that in the Byzantine epoch the hellenization of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Its object was, amid the constantly progressing hellenization of the Western conquerors, to remind them of the spirit of their ancestors.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Southern Italy from the patriarchal jurisdiction of Rome and gave it to the Patriarch of Constantinople, the process of hellenization became more rapid; it received a further impulse when, on account of the Saracenic occupation of Sicily, by Greeks and hellenized
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Abandoning the Apostolic Age, Harnack, in his "History of Dogma", ascribes the hellenization of Christianity to the apologists of the second century (1st German edit., p. 253).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Constantinople of this enormous power over the Christian subjects of the Turks enabled him to carry on a propaganda of hellenization.
The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 Third Edition Jacob Gould Schurman 1898
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Unfortunately with hellenization came the loss of the Jewish roots.
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