Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Pagans collectively; pagan peoples as a whole.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The pagan lands; pagans, collectively; paganism.
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- noun Collectively,
pagans or their realm or lands.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I also like to think the vast majority of honest pagandom consists of unobtrusive, law-abiding, normal folks hiding amongst the non-pagans.
The Faces of Evil? Anne Johnson 2008
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His single distinctive characteristic is the doubtful ease with which he played with the commonplaces of pagandom.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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At the time when we came to Cyprus, the Sultan of Iconium was the richest king in all pagandom.
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Scecedin, which as I told you before was the name of the Turkish captain, had distinguished himself above all the rest of pagandom.
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His name was Scecedin the son of Seik, which is as much as to say: "The Ancient Son of the Ancient," which means a great deal in pagandom, for they are the people of all others who most honour the ancient, since God has preserved them from shame unto old age.
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And to help them, they sent for the Sultan of Emessa, one of the best knights in all pagandom, to whom they showed such honour in Acre, that they spread cloth of gold and silk along the way by which he was to pass.
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Now it is the custom between the Christians and Saracens, that when the King or the Sultan dies, those who are on an embassy (whether in pagandom or Christendom) become prisoners and slaves; and since the Sultan who had given him the passport was dead, the Patriarch was a prisoner like the rest of us.
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Also it struck him that if he by misadventure had been a woman and the wife of such a fellow, by Jove! ... his apostrophe to the father of the gods of pagandom signifying the amount of matter Warwick would have had reason to complain of in earnest.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Also it struck him that if he by misadventure had been a woman and the wife of such a fellow, by Jove! ... his apostrophe to the father of the gods of pagandom signifying the amount of matter Warwick would have had reason to complain of in earnest.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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Also it struck him that if he by misadventure had been a woman and the wife of such a fellow, by Jove! ... his apostrophe to the father of the gods of pagandom signifying the amount of matter Warwick would have had reason to complain of in earnest.
Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868
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