Protestantize
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Protestant + -ize
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Protestantize (third-person singular simple present Protestantizes, present participle Protestantizing, simple past and past participle Protestantized)
- (transitive) To make Protestant; to convert to Protestantism.
- 1918, Willa Cather, chapter 12, in My Ántonia[1], Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 99:
- 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.
- (intransitive) To become Protestant; to convert to Protestantism.
- 1956, Fletcher Pratt, The Battles That Changed History[2], Garden City, NY: Dolphin, Chapter 9, section 7, p. 193:
- 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.
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make Protestant
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become Protestant
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