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Definition of Heathenism

1. Noun. Any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism.

Definition of Heathenism

1. n. The religious system or rites of a heathen nation; idolatry; paganism.

Definition of Heathenism

1. Noun. paganism, heathendom ¹

2. Noun. unchristian state or condition ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Heathenism

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heathenism

Literary usage of Heathenism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Source Book for Ancient Church History: From the Apostolic Age to the by Joseph Cullen Ayer (1913)
"In the East his colleague Valens (364-368) supported the extreme Arian party and persecuted the other parties, at the same time tolerating heathenism. ..."

2. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1902)
"What ii heathenism? It is not simply the worship of idols as distinguished from the ... That means, of course, that there are many kinds of heathenism. ..."

3. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1880)
"He succeeds in giving the reader a clear conception of the nature of this great struggle between heathenism, sustained by the mass and might of the Roman ..."

4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1880)
"He succeeds in giving the reader a clear conception of the nature of this great struggle between heathenism, sustained by the mass and might of the Roman ..."

5. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"The religious development of heathenism has nevertheless been by no means ... It also follows from this that the religion of heathenism does not consist in ..."

6. The Book of the Church by Robert Southey (1825)
"This too is known, that the ancient British heathenism was zealously preserved and ... And it may be presumed that the heathenism of the Romans also still ..."

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