heathenhood

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noun

Heathendom

“Heathenhood and heathendom.”

OriginMiddle English hethenhod →
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Meanings

nounheathenhood (uncountable)
  1. uncountableHeathendom

    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. uncountableThe state or condition of being a heathen.

    Heathenhood and heathendom.

    1 more example

    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

  1. Middle Englishhethenhod
  2. Englishheathenhood

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

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APA

heathenhood. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heathenhood

MLA

“heathenhood.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heathenhood. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “heathenhood,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heathenhood.

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