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paganise

paganise is the alternative spelling of paganize.

Meaning of paganize

Verb

paganize (third-person singular simple present paganizes, present participle paganizing, simple past and past participle paganized)

  1. (transitive) To convert (someone) to paganism.
    Synonyms:
    heathenize
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To behave like a pagan.
    • This was that which made the old Christians paganize, while by their scandalous and base conforming to Heathenism they did no more, when they had done their utmost, but bring some Pagans to christianize; for true Christians they neither were themselves, nor could make other such in this fashion.1641, John Milton, “Animadversions upon The Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus”, in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, volume 1, London...

Forms of paganise

third-person singular presentpaganises
present participlepaganising
past participlepaganised
pastpaganised

Origin of paganise

From pagan + -ise.

Questions about paganise

What is paganise the alternative spelling of?
Paganise is the alternative spelling of paganize.

Words near paganise in the dictionary

  1. Paganini
  2. Paganinian
  3. Paganinis
  4. Paganis
  5. paganisation
  6. paganise
  7. paganised
  8. paganiser
  9. paganisers
  10. paganises
  11. paganish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paganise (page history and authors); paganize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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