"Wesleyanize" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From Wesleyan + -ize.",
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      "form": "Wesleyanizes",
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      "form": "Wesleyanized",
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        {
          "ref": "1850, John Hessel, Mental and Moral Excellence, and the Way to attain it, page 193:",
          "text": "I do not expect all my readers to approve of this act, for undoubtedly its tendency was to Wesleyanize the people, tho' he meant it not so.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1889, George Herbert Curteis, Bishop Selwyn of New Zealand, and of Lichfield:",
          "text": "The Wesleyan attempt, for instance, to Wesleyanize the Friendly Islands and the Feegees, and to associate every convert as a member of the Wesleyan Society, can only succeed by making Wesleyanism into a new form of the Papacy.",
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        {
          "ref": "1891, New York City Church Extension and Missionary Society, Report of the New York City Church Extension and Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church:",
          "text": "We must still further Wesleyanize the methods of our beloved Church.",
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        "To convert to Wesleyanism; To cause to conform to the theology of John Wesley."
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        {
          "word": "Wesleyanise"
        }
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  "word": "Wesleyanize"
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  "etymology_text": "From Wesleyan + -ize.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1850, John Hessel, Mental and Moral Excellence, and the Way to attain it, page 193:",
          "text": "I do not expect all my readers to approve of this act, for undoubtedly its tendency was to Wesleyanize the people, tho' he meant it not so.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1889, George Herbert Curteis, Bishop Selwyn of New Zealand, and of Lichfield:",
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        },
        {
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          "text": "We must still further Wesleyanize the methods of our beloved Church.",
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        "To convert to Wesleyanism; To cause to conform to the theology of John Wesley."
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