Meanings
present singular third person de-paganizes · participle present de-paganizing · participle past de-paganized · past de-paganized
- alternativeAlternative form of depaganize.
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In his zeal to de-paganize the Empire, Ambrose had baptized these garments along with their wearers—had indeed rooted their suitability in the Scriptures, rejecting as a hallmark of paganism and threat to the body politic only the sartorial excesses of perceived effeminacy, the "cross-dressing" condemned alike by Deuteronomy and Roman civic discourse.
2016, Kristi Upson-Saia, Carly Daniel-Hughes, Alicia J. Batten, Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity, page 50
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