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Protestantize
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English
Alternative forms
en Protestantise
en protestantise
en protestantize
Etymology
From en Protestant ize.
Verb
en transitive To make Protestant; to convert to Protestantism.
en 1918 w:Willa Cather w:My Ántonia Boston Houghton Mifflin 12 99 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19810/19810-h/19810-h.html 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.
en intransitive To become Protestant; to convert to Protestantism.
en 1956 w:Fletcher Pratt The Battles That Changed History Garden City, NY Dolphin Chapter 9, section 7, p. 193 https://archive.org/details/battlesthatchang00prat 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.
Antonyms
en de-Protestantize
en un-Protestantize
Derived terms
en Protestantization
en de-Protestantization
en re-Protestantization
en re-Protestantize
Translations
make Protestant
French: fr protestantiser
German: de protestantisieren, de protestantisch machen
Italian: it protestantizzare
Vietnamese: vi Tin Lành hóa, vi Tin Lành hoá
become Protestant
French: fr se protestantiser
German: de zum Protestantismus konvertieren, de protestantisch werden
Italian: it protestantizzarsi
Vietnamese: vi Tin Lành hóa, vi Tin Lành hoá
See also
en Catholicize
en Christianize