heathendom
Noun
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Noun
heathendom (uncountable)
- 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.
- (paganism) The worldwide community that follows Heathenry, a modern pagan faith inspired by the pre-Abrahamic religions of Germanic tribes, Anglo-Saxons and Norse peoples.
- (non-Christian world) Christendom
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