de-paganize

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Verb

de-paganize (third-person singular simple present de-paganizes, present participle de-paganizing, simple past and past participle de-paganized)

  1. Alternative form of depaganize
    • 2016, Kristi Upson-Saia, Carly Daniel-Hughes, Alicia J. Batten, Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity, page 50:
      In his zeal to de-paganize the Empire, Ambrose had baptized these garments along with their wearers—had indeed rooted their suitability in the Scriptures, rejecting as a hallmark of paganism and threat to the body politic only the sartorial excesses of perceived effeminacy, the "cross-dressing" condemned alike by Deuteronomy and Roman civic discourse.