Gentilizing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Gentilizing is an adjective meaning Causing one to become, or becoming, a gentile.
Meaning
Causing one to become, or becoming, a gentile.
More Meanings
- gerund of gentilize
- present participle and gerund of gentilize
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- gentilizings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include degrading, heathenizing, vulgarising, vulgarizing, demeritorious, dirty.
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