单词 | unprotestantize |
释义 | unprotestantizev. Now chiefly historical. transitive. To cause to be no longer Protestant; to divest of Protestant characteristics. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > freeing from Protestantism > free from Protestantism [verb (transitive)] unprotestantize1833 1833 R. H. Froude Let. 17 Nov. in Remains (1838) I. 332 I wish you could get to know something of S. and W., and un-—ise, un-Protestantise, un-Miltonise them. 1842 G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) II. 291 We must unprotestantise the National Church. 1895 Bulwark Sept. 98/1 Mr. Gladstone and Lord Salisbury..have vied with each other in unprotestantising the Church of England. 1921 T. E. Finegan Free Schools vi. 213 We hear..the most doleful recitals of the effects of schools which unprotestantize the children of protestants. 2005 J. Markus J. A. Froude 65 Hurrell, with Newman.., tried to unprotestantize the Church of England. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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