gentilizing

comparative more gentilizing · superlative most gentilizing

1. Causing one to become, or becoming, a gentile.

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   This is not my Conjecture, but dravvn from God’s knovvn Denouncement againſt the gentilizing Iſraelites, vvho though they vvere govern’d in a Commonvvealth of God’s ovvn ordaining, he only thir King, they his peculiar People, yet affecting rather to reſemble Heathen, but pretending the Miſgovernment of Samuel’s Sons, no more a reaſon to diſlike thir Commonvvealth, than the Violence of Eli’s Sons vvas imputable to that Prieſthood or Religion, clamour’d for a King.

   1660 February, John Milton, The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, and the Excellence thereof, Compar’d with the Inconveniencies and Dangers of Readmitting Kingship in this Nation; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume II, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 793

plural gentilizings

1. gerund of gentilize
   1. The act of becoming a gentile, or adopting gentile customs and practices.
   2. obsoleterareThe act of becoming a gentleman.

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of gentilize