agonizing

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Nor could they treat of Christianity without paganizing it.

From The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Burckhardt, Jacob

Cyril represented the paganizing, Nestor the philosophizing party of the Church.

From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by Draper, John William

Plotinus wrote against the paganizing Christians, or Gnostics. 

From Letters on Literature by Lang, Andrew

Paganizing themselves, they sought a deeper paganizing of their serfs than the original paganism that these had brought from Africa.

From Civilization the Primal Need of the Race The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3 by Crummell, Alexander

I should meet the paganizing tendencies of advancing years with security if I could be forearmed with all the weapons of a sanctified life.

From Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Gosse, Edmund