different between creed vs heathendom

English

Etymology

From Old English creda, crede, credo, from Latin cr?d? (“I believe”), from Proto-Italic *krezd?, from Proto-Indo-European *?red d?eh?- (“to place one's heart, i.e., to trust, believe”), a compound phrase of the oblique case form of *??r (“heart”). Creed is cognate with Old Irish cretim (“to believe”), Sanskrit ?????????? (?ráddadh?ti, “to have faith or faithfulness, to have belief or confidence, believe”). Doublet of shraddha.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?i?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?id/
• Rhymes: -i?d

Noun

creed (plural creeds)

1. That which is believed; accepted doctrine, especially religious doctrine; a particular set of beliefs; any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.
2. (specifically, religion) A reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents; a confession of faith for public use, especially one which is brief and comprehensive.
3. (rare) The fact of believing; belief, faith.

Hyponyms

• Apostles' Creed
• Athanasian Creed
• Nicene Creed

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Verb

creed (third-person singular simple present creeds, present participle creeding, simple past and past participle creeded)

1. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, only survives in "creeded") To believe; to credit.
2. (intransitive) To provide with a creed.

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References

• creed in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• creed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Further reading

• creed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• creed (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ceder, cered, rec'ed

Spanish

Verb

creed

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of creer.

English

Etymology

From Middle English hæthendom, from Old English h?þend?m; equivalent to heathen +? -dom. OED records a single attestation in the period between 1230 and 1840, a (nonce?) occurrence in J. Law, Proposals and reasons for constituting a council of trade in Scotland (1701, p. 233). Otherwise replaced by Middle English hethenesse in the later Middle English period and heathenism in the 17th and 18th centuries. Cognate with Dutch heidendom, Old High German heidentuom (German Heidentum), Old Norse heiðindómr (Swedish hedendom).

Noun

heathendom (usually uncountable, plural heathendoms)

1. The state of being heathen.

   The priest argued to the king that unless clerics accompanied the colony ship, the colony would soon descend into heathendom and barbarity.

2. From one religion's or creed's perspective, the rest of the world that does not follow that creed or religion.

   My aunt considered all of Europe to be heathendom, and refused to visit us in Amsterdam on religious grounds.

3. (dated) Specifically, the non-Christian world; territories where Christianity is not the dominant religion.

   The Crusaders meant to wrest Jerusalem from heathendom, but they managed to pillage a number of lands in Christendom along the way.

4. (Germanic paganism, sometimes capitalized) The collection of people who follow Heathenry, a modern pagan faith inspired by the pre-Abrahamic religions of Germanic tribes, Anglo-Saxons and Norse peoples.

Synonyms

• paganism
• heathenism

Antonyms

• (non-Christian world): Christendom

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