paganry

plural paganries

1. uncountableusuallyPaganism.
2. countableusuallyA body of pagans.

   missionary progressives ready to teach the paganry the rudiments of tithing and toothbrushing

   2008, Bill Kauffman, Ain't my America, page 41

   2 more examples

   [Afonso de] Albuquerque, throughout his career, favoured the Hindu paganry against the Hindí Moslems, finding the former much less intractable.

   1881, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “Historical”, in Camoens: His Life and His Lusiads. A Commentary […], volume I, London: Bernard Quaritch, […], →OCLC, § 2 (D.D. Joam II. and Manoel), footnote 1, page 292

   Yet you could hunt for slaves in the countries round about: Celtic Christians of the far West, generally treated as heretics; Islam; Slavonic, Baltic or Finnish 'paganries'

   1960, J. D. Chambers, “The Place of Economic History in Historical Studies”, in N. B. Harte, editor, Study of Economic History: Collected Inaugural Lectures 1893-1970, published 1975, page 240

   Synonyms: heathenry