Definitions
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- v. Present participle of paganize.
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Examples
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How shamefully inexcusable then are the Greek and Roman churches in paganizing the worship of the Christian Church by the encouragement of pictures and images in religious service!
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When the genuine works of our worthy became known to the Jews, Yosippon was regarded as the true representative of the Jewish point of view against the paganizing traitor.
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Dominici does not flatly condemn classical studies, but strenuously opposes the paganizing humanism of the day.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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Erasmus laughed to scorn the Ciceronian pedantries of Bembo and Sadoleto; he quoted with disgust the paganizing terms in which some Roman preachers travestied the persons and scenes of the Gospels.
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Then they pushed southward, and were in process of paganizing all England when they were turned back by the heroism of Alfred.
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Edwin Arnold, the paganizing English poet, put Lecky's folly into verse, writing a sonnet in praise of the harlot as the purest of all women -- a sort of devil's compliment to our wives and mothers.
Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade
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I should meet the paganizing tendencies of advancing years with security if I could be forearmed with all the weapons of a sanctified life.
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Cyril represented the paganizing, Nestor the philosophizing party of the Church.
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Plotinus wrote against the paganizing Christians, or Gnostics.
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I suspect that Jesus would feel a little embarrassment over the paganizing of the event and all the humbuggery it evokes from those who insist on reminding the rest how pious and good they are at this time every year.
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