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heathenry|ˈhiːðənrɪ|
[f. heathen + -ry.]
1. Heathen belief, practice, or custom; heathen character or quality; heathenism.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. II. 28/1 In conuerting the Iland from heathenrie to christianitie. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1879) 144 It is all one, as if they had said, bawdrie, hethenrie, paganrie. 1856T. A. Trollope Girlh. Cath. de Med. iii. 46 Aghast on his arrival in Rome at the utter heathenry around him. 1868Contemp. Rev. VIII. 166 Some of our brilliant imitators of Greek poetry seem to pursue it mainly for its heathenry.
2. Heathen people. (Cf. Irishry.)
a1890R. F. Burton in Lady Burton Life (1893) I. 292 My Goanese boys, being ‘Christians’..will not feed with the heathenry. |