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Definition of Heathenisms
1. heathenism [n] - See also: heathenism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heathenisms
Literary usage of Heathenisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1887)
"sorrows, and its heathenisms; prayers which are the utterance of our awful and
royal priesthood unto God, not as ordained ministers, but as Christian souls; ..."
2. Words on Existing Religions: An Historical Sketch by Albert Stratford George Canning (1893)
"When the paganism of the Romans sunk to rise no more, Judaism and the European
heathenisms, though both were subject to their rule, yet alike survived their ..."
3. The Bulwark, Or, Reformation Journal: In Defence of the True Interests of by Scottish Reformation Society (1872)
"The other heathenisms of the world, against which missionary assaults are made,
are on the decline. Buddhism and Brahminism and Mohammedanism, ..."
4. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1865)
"... were no heathenisms of the cities, no tenpins, no travelling circus, no
progressive young men of heretical tendencies. Such towns were as quiet as a ..."
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