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heathenhood en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (uncountable) 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. (uncountable) The state or condition of being a heathen.
   • 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:
   • Heathenhood and heathendom.