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heathenhood

heathenhood noun: heathendom.

Noun

heathenhood (uncountable)

  1. Heathendom
    • 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.2014, Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
  2. The state or condition of being a heathen.
    • Heathenhood and heathendom.
    • Indians who were enraged and dumbfounded at the Spaniards' barbarity, heathenhood, and moral shipwreck. So really, you said, that means that if Christianity got there before the Spaniards, then what were the Spaniards doing there?2002, Reinaldo Arenas, Hallucinations

Origin of heathenhood

From Middle English hethenhod, haithenhede, equivalent to heathen + -hood.

Questions about heathenhood

What does heathenhood mean?
Heathenhood means heathendom.
What part of speech is heathenhood?
Heathenhood is a noun.

Words near heathenhood in the dictionary

  1. heathener
  2. heatheness
  3. heathenesse
  4. heathenesses
  5. heathenest
  6. heathenhood
  7. heathenise
  8. heathenised
  9. heathenises
  10. heathenish
  11. heathenishly

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