Protestantizev.
/ˈprɒtᵻst(ə)ntʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈprɑdəstənˌtaɪz/ transitive. To cause to be Protestant; to convert to or permeate with the principles of Protestantism. Also intransitive: to practise or convert to Protestantism.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > conversion to Protestantism > convert to Protestantism [verb (intransitive)]
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1829 Times 20 Oct. 3/6 The remains of a German colony, which..the Protestant landlords of Ireland imported with a view either to Protestantize the country, or to promote its cultivation.
1834 Fraser's Mag. 10 720 The grants which they still retain for the express purpose of Protestantising Ireland.
1891 R. T. Davidson et al. Abp. Tait II. xxiv. 199 He would further ‘Protestantise’ the Church of England.
1911 W. M. Rossetti Poet. Wks. C. G. Rossetti p. xlvi. Rossetti did not naturalize himself as an Englishman..; neither did he protestantize.
1931 M. Yeo St. Francis Xavier xvii. 216 The endeavours of Calvinist ministers to protestantise the Paravas.
1994 New Yorker 5 Dec. 62/3 The public schools, in the process of trying to ‘Americanize’ the immigrant children, were also trying to ‘Protestantize’ them.
2003 R. C. Salomone in A. Wolfe School Choice xii. 250 It became less important to Protestantize than to Americanize.
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ˈProtestantized adj.
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1852 ‘Kirwan’ Romanism at Home 241 Nor can you or I indulge any vivid hopes for our country, save in its Christianized, that is to say, spiritually-Protestantized futurity.
1895 Daily News 24 May 5/6 He belonged to a Protestantised Jewish family, eminent in the financial world.
1980 Christian Michaelmas 26 As a Christian apologist, Lewis is a kind of protestantized Chesterton.
2005 Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 3 Apr. 1 He feared a Protestantized Catholicism in which mystical traditions were lost.
ˈProtestantizing n. and adj.
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1835 T. Wyse Speech 19 May in Education (Ireland) 17 The old Protestantising spirit.
1863 H. E. Manning Serm. Eccl. Subj. vi. 255 Do I then fear the protestantising of Ireland? No not a whit.
1906 W. Walker John Calvin vii. 203 Another considerable element valued the Protestantising of Geneva more for its political than for its religious results.
1986 A. Hastings Hist. Eng. Christianity 1920–85 (1987) xxxv. 555 Much of the apparent ‘Protestantizing’ going on within Roman Catholicism proved very hard [for Anglo-Catholics] to take.
2003 National Catholic Reporter (Nexis) 31 Oct. 11 a Foregrounding this distinctiveness means..resisting Protestantizing elements within the church itself.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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