"confessionalize" meaning in English

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        "To fix religious beliefs into set categories of denomination or dogma."
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          "religious",
          "religious"
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          "belief",
          "belief"
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          "denomination",
          "denomination"
        ],
        [
          "dogma",
          "dogma"
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        {
          "word": "confessionalization"
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          "word": "tunnustuskuntaistaa"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "konfessionalisieren"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "confesionaliza"
        }
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  "word": "confessionalize"
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      "word": "confesionaliza"
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