Gentilizing
adj, noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 gerund of gentilize; The act of becoming a gentile, or adopting gentile customs and practices.
- 2 gerund of gentilize; The act of becoming a gentleman. obsolete, rare
- 1 present participle and gerund of gentilize form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 1 Causing one to become, or becoming, a gentile.
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From gentilize + -ing.
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