• Heathenry

    Full definition of heathenry

    Noun

    heathenry

    (uncountable)
    1. the state of being heathen
      • 1921, James Branch Cabell, Chivalry Chapter , It was as though she were some tinted and lavishly adorned statue of barbaric heathenry, and he her postulant; and her large eyes appeared to judge an immeasurable path, beyond him.
      • 1917, G. K. Chesterton, A Short History of England Chapter , In the simpler case of northern heathenry the civilization spread with a simplier progress.
      • 1909, James Branch Cabell, Chivalry Chapter , It was as though she were some tinted and lavishly adorned statue of barbaric heathenry, and he her postulant; and her large eyes appeared to judge an immeasurable path, beyond him.
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