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Christianocentric

Christianocentric adjective: centred on or overemphasizing Christianity and/or Christians.

Adjective

Christianocentric (comparative more Christianocentric, superlative most Christianocentric)

  1. Centred on or overemphasizing Christianity and/or Christians.
    • As we have seen, there are many such statements, but no public school teacher would ever — or should ever — get away with suggesting to fifth graders that these statements are any more representative of the wide diversity of beliefs held by the founders than are the Christianocentric statements...2008, Alan Dershowitz, Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence, Wiley, published 2008, →ISBN, page 105
    • Freud has brilliantly led the 'popular' thinker to the core of his scandalous assertion that, beyond even the displaced idea of normal/abnormal, he is prepared to undo the child/adult division and with it the idea of childhood innocence and the Christianocentric idea of a corrupting fall into adult...2008, Griselda Pollock, “The visual poetics of shame: a feminist reading of Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905)”, in Claire Pajaczkowska, Ivan Ward, editors, Shame and Sexuality...

Forms of Christianocentric

comparativemore Christianocentric
superlativemost Christianocentric

Origin of Christianocentric

From Christiano- + -centric.

Questions about Christianocentric

What does Christianocentric mean?
Christianocentric means centred on or overemphasizing Christianity and/or Christians.
What part of speech is Christianocentric?
Christianocentric is an adjective.

Words near Christianocentric in the dictionary

  1. Christianly
  2. Christianna
  3. Christianne
  4. Christianness
  5. Christiano-
  6. Christianocentric
  7. Christianoid
  8. Christianophile
  9. Christianophiles
  10. Christianophilia
  11. Christianophilic

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