heathendom

Etymology
From, from ; equivalent to. 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 in the later Middle English period and  in the 17th and 18th centuries. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 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.
 * 1) 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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  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.

Translations

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 * Middle English: myscreaunce


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 * Middle English: payenie, hethenesse, paynym


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