Definition of "catechizing" []

• Present participle of catechize. (verb)

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• "It has been an amazing thing to me, occasionally to meet with men who blamed this "catechizing" for giving them a distaste to religion; every one in all our circle thinks and feels exactly the opposite."
• "A few days after her arrival, a week or more, she underwent one evening a kind of catechizing from her aunt, as to her former manner of life; where she had been, and with whom, since her mother left her; what she had been doing; whether she had been to school, and how her time was spent at home,"
• ""It [the sacred liturgy] is therefore the privileged place for catechizing the people of God.""