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paganism|ˈpeɪgənɪz(ə)m|
[ad. eccles. L. pāgānism-us (Augustine), f. pāgān-us pagan: see -ism. Cf. F. paganisme (1611 in Cotgr.).]
1. The religious belief and practices of pagans; the condition of being a pagan; heathenism.
1433Lydg. St. Edmund ii. 417 That goddis creatoure..Sholde in helle eternal peyne endure Thoruh mysbeleue for paganysme rage. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. xix. (1634) 729 They goe about a wittie thing, to make one Religion of Christianitie, Jewishnesse, and Paganisme, as it were of patches sowed together. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. ix. li. (1612) 230 Peruse all Lawes, euen Paganizme. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxi. (1846) II. 248 The divisions of Christianity suspended the ruin of Paganism. 1833J. H. Newman Arians i. iii. (1876) 80 The Book of Genesis contains a record of the dispensation of Natural Religion, or Paganism, as well as of the Patriarchal.
†b. The pagan world; pagandom, heathendom.
1640tr. Verdere's Rom. of Rom. i. xxvii. 123 The revenge of those outrages, which from time to time all Paganisme had received from the Emperours of Greece. c1650Don Bellianis 18 The great destruction made of his people by you, and in all Paganisme.
2. fig. or allusively. Pagan character or quality; the moral condition of pagans.
1874Fergusson in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 765 Views opposed to the Paganism of St. Paul's or to the attempt to mediævalize it. 1876J. Parker Paracl. ii. xix. 356 The paganism of his logic should not be taken for more than it is worth.
b. A pagan or heathenish feature. rare.
1883Athenæum 15 Dec. 783/1 Their crowning features are mere paganisms, quite out of keeping with the designs they deface. |