gentilizing

Etymology

From gentilize + -ing.

gentilizing means causing one to become, or becoming, a gentile. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

adj

Causing one to become, or becoming, a gentile.“This is not my Conjecture, but drawn from God’s known Denouncement againſt the gentilizing Iſraelites, who though they were govern’d in a Commonwealth of God’s own ordaining, he only thir King, they his peculiar People, yet affecting rather to reſemble Heathen, but pretending the Miſgovernment of Samuel’s Sons, no more a reaſon to diſlike thir Commonwealth, than the Violence of Eli’s Sons was impu”

noun

gerund of gentilize; The act of becoming a gentile, or adopting gentile customs and practices.
gerund of gentilize; The act of becoming a gentleman.