heathendom
Britishnoun
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But however justifiable, according to heathen precedents, this legislation of the early Christian emperors had proved a fatal blow to heathendom, for it was just here that the ardour of popular religion had consecrated itself.
From Sermons by J. B. Lightfoot
There can be small doubt that in the Scandinavian settlements and particularly in the alien host heathendom still lingered to some extent.
From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Laurence Marcellus Larson
Christians may learn even from heathendom a lesson of charity, of human kindness and of love.
From To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians by Dwight Lyman Moody
The wonder of the formation of the Christian community itself was never absent from the mind of those who were eye-witnesses of the heathendom in the bosom of which it arose.
From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
It is a new set of names that we encounter in Apostolic history; converts from heathendom, and those who labored with the Apostle to the Gentiles.
From Women of Early Christianity by Alfred Brittain
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