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Judaizing

Judaizing is the present participle and gerund of Judaize.

Meaning of Judaize

Verb

Judaize (third-person singular simple present Judaizes, present participle Judaizing, simple past and past participle Judaized)

  1. (transitive) To impose Jewish beliefs or customs on someone; to convert to Judaism; to make Jewish.
    • The heretical Theodotion, the Judaized Symmachus.1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    Jewmaxx
    Antonyms:
    dejudaize
  2. (intransitive) To be engaged in activity that imposes Jewish beliefs or customs on someone or something.
    • Later polemicists employ anti-Muslim rhetoric, especially allegations that Muslims themselves judaize, in similar fashion.2023 October 1, David M. Freidenreich, chapter 1, in Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy, Oakland, California: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 31

Questions about Judaizing

What is Judaizing the present participle and gerund of?
Judaizing is the present participle and gerund of Judaize.

Words near Judaizing in the dictionary

  1. Judaize
  2. Judaized
  3. Judaizer
  4. Judaizers
  5. Judaizes
  6. Judaizing
  7. judas
  8. Judas chair
  9. Judas chairs
  10. Judas cradle
  11. Judas cradles

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