[f. CHRISTIANIZE + -ATION.]

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  1.  Making Christian; conversion to Christianity.

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1833.  Chalmers, Const. Man (1835), II. II. ii. 290. The basis of Christianization.

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1835.  Duff, in Life, x. (1881), 157. The christianization of India.

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1837.  J. Lang, New S. Wales, II. 308. Christianization and civilization of the aboriginal inhabitants of New South Wales.

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  2.  The giving of a Christian character or form to.

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1844.  Stanley, Arnold, I. iv. 222. No full development of the Church, no full Christianization of the State, could … take place, until [etc.].

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1847.  Ld. Lindsay, Chr. Art, I. 41. The habitual christianisation of heathen traditions.

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