unˈchristianize, v.
[un-2 6 c.]
trans. To deprive of the character or status of being Christian; to render unchristian.
| a 1714 M. Henry Treat. Baptism v. Wks. 1853 I. 549/1 To unchurch, unchristianize, unbaptize, all those who are not in every thing of our length. 1746 Brit. Mag. 95 Debasing and unchristianizing the more polite and younger Part of the Nation. 1839 Morn. Herald 1 July, To enslave the people and un-Christianise the country. 1850 Newman Diffic. Anglic. i. i. (1891) I. 24 Why, half the country is unbaptized... Shall the country unchristianize itself? a 1878 Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. I. 13 Surely this does not unchristianise the already Christian architecture of the soldiers of the Cross. |
Hence unˈchristianized ppl. a.1, -izing vbl. n.
| 1636 H. Burton Apology of Appeale 20 The basenesse of Degenerate English Spirits, become so unchristianized, as [etc.]. 1853 Bright Sp., Admiss. Jews to Parlt. (1868) 524 Whence this notion or feeling of unchristianising springs. |