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- verb Present participle of
heathenize .
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Examples
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Everyone ran to the door to greet us, delighted by the exciting prospect of heathenizing an eight-year-old.
i know i am, but what are you? SAMANTHA BEE 2010
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Everyone ran to the door to greet us, delighted by the exciting prospect of heathenizing an eight-year-old.
i know i am, but what are you? SAMANTHA BEE 2010
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Epiphanes in revolt against his heathenizing policy.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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Shame on any American christian who will attempt to defend the system on such a plea; and shame on the American christian, who will compromise the principle of justice, and eternal right, to support any political organization, that will legalize or justify the heathenizing human beings in a professedly christian land.
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Judea to a mere province of Rome was not pleasing to his subjects, and he was suspected of a design of heathenizing the nation.
Ancient States and Empires John Lord 1852
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They were called Pharisees, meaning those who separated themselves from the heathen, and from the heathenizing forces and tendencies which constantly invaded the precincts of Judaism (I Mach., i, 11; II Mach., iv, 14 sq.; cf. Josephus Antiq.,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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