heathendom
Britishnoun
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Verily, under that shabby yellow cloak and prosaic tradesman's figure is concealed the youthful and most accomplished god of heathendom, the cunning son of Maia.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine
And it was indeed a marvellous achievement for a pirate chief from a nation just emerging from heathendom to gather into his power the realms and territories that made up the Knytling empire.
From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Laurence Marcellus Larson
This is the heathendom of art, in which feeling is all, authority nothing; in which rules are only suspected, not created.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
Thus these literary evidences span about two centuries, and stop near the threshold of heathendom.
From Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland by Ph.D.
Anglo-Saxon poetry, whether derived from heathendom or from the Church, has ideas and manners of its own; it comes to perfection, and then it dies away.
From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by W. P. (William Paton) Ker
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