gentilizing
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gentilizing (comparative more gentilizing, superlative most gentilizing)
- Causing one to become, or becoming, a gentile.
- 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:
- This is not my Conjecture, but drawn from God’s known Denouncement againſt the gentilizing Iſraelites, who though they were govern’d in a Commonwealth of God’s own 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 Commonwealth, than the Violence of Eli’s Sons was imputable to that Prieſthood or Religion, clamour’d for a King.
Noun
[edit]gentilizing (plural gentilizings)
Verb
[edit]gentilizing
- present participle and gerund of gentilize
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