heathenism

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state of being, or behavior and thought, of heathens. countable,uncountable
    — Near-synonym: paganism

词形变化

heathenisms plural

词源

From heathen + -ism, coined in the 17th century in place of the then-obsolete heathendom. First attested in Francis Bacon's Of the advancement of learning (1605), II. xiv. §9: "The heresy of the Anthropomorphites … and the opinion of Epicurus, answerable to the same in heathenism, who supposed the gods to be in human shape" (OED).
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