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- verb Present participle of
Christianise .
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Examples
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During that time Hiltz and his predecessors have never deviated from their agenda of de-Christianising the Anglican Church.
Lies, damned lies and Fred Hiltz lies « Anglican Samizdat 2009
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David Livingstone had a compassion and commitment to end the slave trade through Christianising and ‘civilising’ Africa while facilitating economic ‘take-off’ that would have provided the needed economic incentives to stop the trade from continuing.
David Livingstone’s Vision Revisited: Christianity, Commerce and Civilization in the 21st Century 2007
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We used to believe in the validity of Christianising an institution because we believed in the truth of Christianity; no more.
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We used to believe in the validity of Christianising an institution because we believed in the truth of Christianity; no more.
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Spurred on by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, and by the Christian Muslim Forum, which has launched a national battle against the de-Christianising of Christmas, local leaders of three faiths wrote to Franks in Luton this week.
''It's political correctness gone mad'' gone mad Rachel 2006
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Spurred on by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, and by the Christian Muslim Forum, which has launched a national battle against the de-Christianising of Christmas, local leaders of three faiths wrote to Franks in Luton this week.
Archive 2006-12-01 Rachel 2006
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The great Jesuit thinker, Henri de Lubac (how close to Ramsey in so many ways!) observes in his wonderful Paradoxes of Faith what a mistake it is to think in terms of trying to humanise the world before Christianising it.
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Christianising the group, and had sent out 149 male and female missionaries, resolved that it should not receive any further aid either in men or money.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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Of these a great number are excellent in both intention and execution, and must be numbered among the educating, civilising, Christianising agencies of the day.
Great Britain and Her Queen Annie E. Keeling
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Government devote their lives to the Christianising and civilising of the varied populations which we rule over.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant
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