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Christianize   /krˈɪstʃənˌaɪz/   Listen
Christianize

verb
(past & past part. christianized; pres. part. christianizing)
1.
Adapt in the name of Christianity.
2.
Convert to Christianity.  Synonym: Christianise.





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"Christianize" Quotes from Famous Books



... OF THE MISSIONS. Influenced by the work of Las Casas against Indian slavery and for Indian missions, the Spaniards bent their efforts to preserve and Christianize the natives wherever they came upon them in America. Catholic priests gathered the Indians into permanent villages, which were called missions. Within about one hundred years after the death of Columbus, or by 1600, there were more then 5,000,000 Indians in such villages under Spanish ...
— Introductory American History • Henry Eldridge Bourne and Elbert Jay Benton


Words linked to "Christianize" :   accommodate, Christianization, adapt, convert


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