protestantize

present singular third person protestantizes · participle present protestantizing · participle past protestantized · past protestantized

1. transitiveTo convert to Protestantism.

present singular third person Protestantizes · participle present Protestantizing · participle past Protestantized · past Protestantized · alternative Protestantise · alternative protestantise · alternative protestantize

1. transitiveTo make Protestant; to convert to Protestantism.

   There had been nothing strange about the [Christmas] tree before, but now, with some one kneeling before it,—images, candles, … Grandfather merely put his finger-tips to his brow and bowed his venerable head, thus Protestantizing the atmosphere.

   1918, Willa Cather, chapter 12, in My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 99

2. intransitiveTo become Protestant; to convert to Protestantism.

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   Before the Reformation, whatever wars took place, there remained throughout Europe the underlying concept of an essential unity of Christendom, an idea that all states still formed part of a common body. Even after it, when Charles V came to an agreement with the Protestantizing princes of the empire in 1555, that idea and ideal remained.

   1956, Fletcher Pratt, The Battles That Changed History, Garden City, NY: Dolphin, Chapter 9, section 7, p. 193