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heathendom|ˈhiːðəndəm|
[OE. hǽðendóm = MLG. heidendôm, OHG. heidentuom, Ger. heidentum, Du. heidendom, ON. heiðindómr (Sw. hedendom); f. heathen + -dom. The old word appears to have died out before 1400; in modern use app. formed anew after Christendom. Not in Johnson, Todd 1818, Webster 1828.]
1. The belief and practice of the heathen; = heathenism 1.
c1000Laws of Edw. & Guth. §1 (Schmid) Hi ᵹecwædon þæt hi ænne God lufian woldon, and ælcne hæðendom ᵹeorne aweorpan. c1200Ormin 18855 Þiss þessterrnesse iss hæþenndom And dwillde inn hæfedd sinness. c1200Vices & Virtues (1888) 31 Ða unwraste ileaue of hæðen-dome. a1225Leg. Kath. 35 And dreien cristene men..alle to heaðendom. 1701J. Law Counc. Trade (1751) 233 Improvement of human society, beyond what it could possibly attain to in Heathendom. 1850Hawthorne Scarlet L. xx, The many precious souls he hath won from heathendom. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. iv. 179 Whatever traces of heathendom may have cloven to Rolf himself.
b. transf. The condition of being unenlightened and untouched by Christian influences.
1850Kingsley Cheap Clothes & Nasty in Alt. Locke (1879) p. lxiii, He trims his paletots, and adorns his legs, with the flesh of men and the skins of women, with degradation, pestilence, heathendom, and despair.
2. The domain or realm of the heathen; heathen people collectively; the heathen world.
1860Trench Serm. Westm. Abb. ix. 96 Thick darkness rested over the whole of heathendom. 1861E. Gaskell Boyle Lect. 32 The mighty work of subjugating all heathendom to the faith of the crucified Nazarene. |