unchristianizev.
transitive. To deprive of the character or status of being Christian; to render unchristian.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > sect > Christianity > lack of Christianity > cause lack of Christianity [verb (transitive)]
unchristian1633
unchristen1643
unchristianizea1714
de-christianize1834
a1714 M. Henry Treat. Baptism v, in Wks. (1853) I. 549/1 To unchurch, unchristianize, unbaptize, all those who are not in every thing of our length.
1746 Brit. Mag. 95 Debasing and unchristianizing the more polite and younger Part of the Nation.
1839 Morning Herald 1 July To enslave the people and un-Christianise the country.
1850 J. H. Newman Lect. Diffic. Anglicans (1891) I. i. i. 24 Why, half the country is unbaptized... Shall the country unchristianize itself?
a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 13 Surely this does not unchristianise the already Christian architecture of the soldiers of the Cross.
Derivatives
unˈchristianized adj.1
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > sect > Christianity > lack of Christianity > [adjective] > affected by
unchristianized1636
after-Christian1886
1636 H. Burton Apol. of Appeale Epist. to Nobility 20 The basenesse of Degenerate English Spirits, become so unchristianized, as [etc.].
unˈchristianizing n.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > sect > Christianity > lack of Christianity > [noun] > causing
unchristianizing1853
de-christianizing1869
de-christianization1882
1853 J. Bright in Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 125 1255 Whence this notion or feeling of unchristianising springs.
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