Definitions For Heathendom
Noun
HEATHENDOM (plural - or s) The state of being heathen. : The priest argued to the king that unless clerics accompanied the colony ship, the colony would soon descend into heathendom and barbarity. From one religion's or creed's perspective, the rest of the world that does not follow that creed or religion. : My aunt considered all of Europe to be heathendom, and refused to visit us in Amsterdam on religious grounds. (dated) Specifically, the non-christian world; territories where christianity is not the dominant religion. : The Crusaders meant to wrest Jerusalem from heathendom, but they managed to pillage a number of lands in Christendom along the way. (paganism) The worldwide community that follows Heathenry, a modern pagan faith inspired by the pre-Abrahamic religions of Germanic tribes, Anglo-Saxons and Norse peoples.Synonyms
paganism heathenismAntonyms
non-Christian world ChristendomTranslations
Dutch: heidendom, n Dutch: heidendom, n Dutch: heidendom, n Middle English: paynye, hethenesse, paynym Dutch: heidendom, n {{checktrans-top}} German: {{t+check, de, Heidentum}} Swedish: {{t+check, sv, hedendom}}Etymology
From Middle English hæthendom, from {{inh, en, ang, hǣþendōm}}; equivalent to {{af, en, heathen, -dom}}. OED records a single attestation in the period between 1230 and 1840, a (nonce?) occurrence in J. Law, Proposals and reasons for constituting a council of trade in Scotland (1701, p. 233). Otherwise replaced by {{noncog, enm, hethenesse}} in the later Middle English period and heathenism in the 17th and 18th centuries. Cognate with {{cog, nl, heidendom}}, {{cog, goh, heidentuom}} ({{cog, de, Heidentum}}), {{cog, non, heiðindómr}} ({{cog, sv, hedendom}}).Is Heathendom a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
YES
Scrabble US
YES
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
Enable1 Dictionary
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Points in Different Games
Scrabble
19
Words with Friends
19
The word Heathendom is worth 19 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends
Examples of Heathendom in a Sentence
- Old missionaries who mistakenly thought that they were going off to China to tame the heathen hordes
- A missionary sent to distant lands to convert the heathens
- European colonizers, who considered the New World peoples to be heathens, forced them to conform to European ways.