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- noun Plural form of
heathenism .
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Examples
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Yet he cannot but respect her devotion profoundly, wondering how it can have grown up under the heathenisms of her life; wondering perhaps, too, how his own heathenism could have grown up under the roof of a parsonage.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various
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They had given up their worst heathenisms and the head chief, with his family, was a daily attendant at the sermons.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Meanwhile the Christian Church from these speculations has kept itself severely apart -- as of course representing a unique and divine revelation little concerned or interested in such heathenisms; and moreover (in this country at any rate) has managed to persuade the general public of its own divine uniqueness to such a degree that few people, even nowadays, realize that it has sprung from just the same root as
Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning Edward Carpenter 1886
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Worse than that, they would return to the heresy or the heathenisms which they professed a little while ago.
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And yet I can hardly conceive so much power without immediate and sensible effects: only there will be a strong disposition to resist on the part of all hollow-hearted professors of religion, whose heathenisms you so unsparingly expose.
Lady Byron Vindicated Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 1870
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And yet I can hardly conceive so much power without immediate and sensible effects: only there will be a strong disposition to resist on the part of all hollow-hearted professors of religion, whose heathenisms you so unsparingly expose.
Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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Your book, dear Mrs. Stowe, is of the "little leaven" kind, and must prove a great moral force, -- perhaps not manifestly so much as secretly, and yet I can hardly conceive so much power without immediate and sensible effects; only there will be a strong disposition to resist on the part of all the hollow-hearted professors of religion, whose heathenisms you so unsparingly expose.
Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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Meanwhile the Christian Church from these speculations has kept itself severely apart -- as of course representing a unique and divine revelation little concerned or interested in such heathenisms; and moreover (in this country at any rate) has managed to persuade the general public of its own divine uniqueness to such a degree that few people, even nowadays, realize that it has sprung from just the same root as Paganism, and that it shares by far the most part of its doctrines and rites with the latter.
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Your book, dear Mrs. Stowe, is of the “little leaven” kind, and must prove a great moral force, ” perhaps not manifestly so much as secretly, and yet I can hardly conceive so much power without immediate and sensible effects; only there will be a strong disposition to resist on the part of all the hollow-hearted professors of religion, whose heathenisms you so unsparingly expose.
The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe, Charles Edward 1889
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