Definition of Heathendoms

1. heathendom [n] - See also: heathendom

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heathendoms

heath
heath aster
heath family
heath fritillaries
heath fritillary
heath hen
heath pea
heath violet
heathbird
heathbirds
heathclad
heathcroppers
heathen
heathendom
heathendoms (current term)
heathenesse
heathenish
heathenishly
heathenishness
heathenism
heathenisms
heathenize
heathenized
heathenizes
heathenizing
heathenly
heathenries
heathenry
heathens

Literary usage of Heathendoms

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

1. Kino's Historical Memoir of Pimería Alta: A Contemporary Account of the by Eusebio Francisco Kino (1919)
"... the new heathendoms, and happily we shall comply with them if we try to secure, as is so just, the promotion of these new conversions. JULY 17, 1701. ..."

2. Across India at the Dawn of the 20th Century by Lucy Evangeline Guinness (1898)
"Chapter XVIII BETWEEN FOUR heathendoms Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?—II AGf.A1. ..."

3. Spain in the West (1919)
"... the new heathendoms, and happily we shall comply with them if we try to secure, as is so just, the promotion of these new conversions. JULY 17, 1701. ..."

4. The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1905)
"Nevertheless some of their spirit goes back to other heathendoms than the Teutonic, and goes back through the advent of Christianity. ..."

5. The Diary of a Japanese Convert by Kanzō Uchimura (1895)
"... of the fearful curse of rum-traffic, so common in other doms than heathendoms. If there were no Gospel stories to calm down my childish passion's rage, ..."

6. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1849)
"... and St. Giles's heathendoms—what are all such to the woes of Claude Sinclair and Edith Aspinall ? Fired by that celestial theme, the novelist hears ..."

7. The Saga Library by Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris (1894)
"There and then he undid many evil wonts and heathendoms amongst the people; whereas the earls had holden well to ancient laws and the right of the land, ..."

8. Spanish Exploration in the Southwest, 1542-1706 by Herbert Eugene Bolton (1916)
"Beginnings and Progress of the New Conquests and New Conversions of the heathendoms of this extensive ..."

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