Meaning

The state of being heathen..

Definitions by Sense

1. The state of being heathen.
2. From one religion's or creed's perspective, the rest of the world that does not follow that creed or religion.
3. (dated) Specifically, the non-Christian world; territories where Christianity is not the dominant religion.
4. (Germanic paganism, sometimes capitalized) The collection of people who follow Heathenry, a modern pagan faith inspired by the pre-Abrahamic religions of Germanic tribes, Anglo-Saxons and Norse peoples.

Example Sentences

The priest argued to the king that unless clerics accompanied the colony ship, the colony would soon descend into heathendom and barbarity.

My aunt considered all of Europe to be heathendom, and refused to visit us in Amsterdam on religious grounds.

The Crusaders meant to wrest Jerusalem from heathendom, but they managed to pillage a number of lands in Christendom along the way.

Ziegenbalg mentioned some major forms of heathendom (African, American, old European)[…]

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• heathendoms

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