de-paganize

A form of depaganize — To remove the pagan qualities or elements of.

Meanings

verbde-paganize (third-person singular simple present de-paganizes, present participle de-paganizing, simple past and past participle de-paganized)

present singular third person de-paganizes · participle present de-paganizing · participle past de-paganized · past de-paganized

  1. alternativeAlternative form of depaganize.
    1 more example

    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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APA

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Chicago

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