heathendom
heathenhood
heathency old-fashioned

"The efforts of our brothers in heathendom are beyond praise," he said.

I intend to raise them in unenlightened heathendom, and my son also.

Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by Celtic heathendom.

It is the rustiest old barn in heathendom.

The verdict complete, the soldiers of heathendom now led their victim out of the court, into the street, and to an awaiting prison.

I want naught to do with magic or heathendom, me, a good Christian, a free Roman citizen."

Early on, therefore, Christian priests exiled thence, with bell, book, and candle, all beings of heathendom.

This is heathendom!

She supposed it was because she was a sinful woman that she had this glance into heathendom.

What is heathendom, Aunt?"

Celtic Heathendom (1886)

They lived on the frontier between Islam and heathendom; they fought their own pagan kinsmen on behalf of the new revelation.

The nunnery flourished for more than a century, when, in the time of Penda, who was the reactionary of heathendom, it fell into decay.

Heathenry, Heathenism or Heathendom may refer to:

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.

"The learned Erkenbert reports that he and Bruno and their men penetrate ever deeper into heathendom, fearing no persecution.

Spiritually Jewdom has conquered over heathendom, and Rachel has returned pure to her lover; but physically Jewdom is defeated.

China was even worse: 'I was sorely grieved that heathendom had so strong a hold over [this rich country],' he wrote after a few weeks in Qanjanfu.

My one sufficient object was to greet that pious friend of mine, the Apostle Eliot, and rejoice with him over the many precious souls he hath won from heathendom!"

She's the michtiest witch in Christendie or heathendom, and could belike match hersel' wi' aught in the Middle World.

The story is turned into an expression of the conflict between Heathendom and Christianity: the family of the dead girl are Christians, while the young man and his relatives are still pagans.

Baugh and Malone (1959) write that "This narrative ... is a precious relic of English heathendom; unluckily we do not know the Woden myth which it summarizes."

The occult practices of the Blutleuchte was supposed to be a symbiosis of heathendom and "lordly leadership" in the service of a wayward humanity in need of a fundamental rebirth.

Though he uses an archaic terminology now generally eschewed by Christian missiologists (i.e. "heathendom"), Bavinck's explanation of Christian elenctics is still valid in the 21st century.

And she had come from worse places, from the Castle Chariot in the fairy country, out of all knowledge of Christendom and heathendom alike, out of the very doors of this world .

If only he had shown the good judgment to leave the child to her happy heathenhood!

Even though heathenhood wasn't a word-I can't find it in any dictionary-the congregation knew what he meant.

Hegbert, in addition to his belief that fornicators were destined to clean the urinals in hell, also believed that communism was "a sickness that doomed mankind to heathenhood."