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diabolize

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di·ab·o·lize  (d-b-lz)
tr.v. di·ab·o·lized, di·ab·o·liz·ing, di·ab·o·liz·es
1. To cause to be devilish or diabolical.
2. To represent as diabolical.
diabolize, diabolise [daɪˈæbəˌlaɪz]
vb (tr)
1. (Non-Christian Religions / Other Non-Christian Religions)
a.  to make (someone or something) diabolical
b.  to subject to the influence of devils
2. to portray as diabolical
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.diabolize - turn into a devil or make devilish; "Man devilized by war"
devilise, devilize, diabolise
alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
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60) What is most striking in Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom is the author's attempt to turn a tool into a goal: philology, while certainly complex and sophisticated, was used as a tool by the translators and polemicists of the Latin Christendom to provide credence to their attempts to distort the message of Islam, to diabolize it using its own language and interpretive tradition, to make it sound as wrongheaded and as fully un-Christian as possible.
Thomas E. Burman: Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom by Iqbal, Musaffar / Islam & Science
 
 
 
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