Dictionary

Protestantize en · VERB

Etymology

From Protestant + -ize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To make Protestant; to convert to Protestantism.
   • There had been nothing strange about the [Christmas] tree before, but now, with some one kneeling before it,—images, candles, … Grandfather merely put his finger-tips to his brow and bowed his venerable head, thus Protestantizing the atmosphere. 1918, Willa Cather, chapter 12, in My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 99:
2. (intransitive) To become Protestant; to convert to Protestantism.
   • Before the Reformation, whatever wars took place, there remained throughout Europe the underlying concept of an essential unity of Christendom, an idea that all states still formed part of a common body. Even after it, when Charles V came to an agreement with the Protestantizing princes of the empire in 1555, that idea and ideal remained. 1956, Fletcher Pratt, The Battles That Changed History, Garden City, NY: Dolphin, Chapter 9, section 7, p. 193:

Forms

Antonyms

un-Protestantize · de-Protestantize

Deriveds

Protestantization · re-Protestantize · re-Protestantization · de-Protestantization

Relateds

Catholicize · Christianize

Translations (8)

de protestantisieren (make Protestant) · vi Tin Lành hóa (make Protestant) · vi Tin Lành hoá (become Protestant) · vi Tin Lành hoá (make Protestant) · de protestantisch werden (become Protestant) · de zum Protestantismus konvertieren (become Protestant) · vi Tin Lành hóa (become Protestant) · de protestantisch machen (make Protestant)