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heathendom
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)
- 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.
- 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.
- (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.
- (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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heathenism
English
Etymology
From heathen +? -ism, coined in the 17th century in place of the then-obsolete heathendom. First attested in Francis Bacon's Of the advancement of learning (1605), II. xiv. §9: "The heresy of the Anthropomorphites [...] and the opinion of Epicurus, answerable to the same in heathenism, who supposed the gods to be in human shape" (OED).
Noun
heathenism (countable and uncountable, plural heathenisms)
- paganism, heathendom
- 2009, Adeline Masquelier, Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town, Page 88
- […] they urge all followers of the Prophet to return to an authentic Islam, devoid of heathenism and innovations.
- Synonym: heathenship
- 2009, Adeline Masquelier, Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town, Page 88
Coordinate terms
- (religions) religion; Asatru,? Bahá'í Faith,? Buddhism,? Cao Dai,? Cheondoism,? Christianity,? deism,? Druidry,? Eckankar,? Flying Spaghetti Monsterism,? Heathenry,? Hinduism,? Islam,? Jainism,? Jediism,? Judaism,? Kimbanguism,? Odinism,? paganism,? Pastafarianism,? Raëlism,? Rastafarianism,? Shinto,? Sikhism,? Tamilism,? Taoism,? Thelema,? Unitarian Universalism,? Wicca,? Yazidism,? Yoruba,? Zoroastrianism (Category: en:Religion) [edit]
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