Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The religious beliefs and practices of pagans; religious opinion, worship, and conduct which is not Christian, Jewish, or Mohammedan.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being pagan; pagan characteristics; esp., the worship of idols or false gods, or the system of religious opinions and worship maintained by pagans; heathenism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Indigenous and polytheistic religions.
- noun A class of religions often associated with
nature rituals .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism
Etymologies
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Examples
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Anyone with a passing interest in paganism/English folklore/Doctor Who actors in other roles should try and get hold of it.
January Books 17) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams nwhyte 2010
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But to sit there and claim we are surrounded by paganism is a bit rich, even for him.
Religious Education 2009
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And then there's the very idea that being "surrounded by paganism" is somehow a threat to America and our way of life.
Religious Education 2009
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You know that paganism is the fastest growing broad religious ideology innot only America but also Canada, North and Western Europe and Japan?
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If you are a pagan, you may not think pagans are better than everyone else, but you think paganism is a superior belief to every other.
OH SNAP. fantasyecho 2008
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Adler explained that paganism is a term that is used to refer to many worldwide religions that celebrate nature.
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That the conquerors are not complaining that the conquered are rising up against their original war on paganism is quite ironic indeed.
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Carducci's paganism is understandable to a Protestant, at least.
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To counter the interest in paganism brought about by Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code?
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As noted, paganism is on a longstanding slide; it hasn’t shown generation-to-generation staying power for centuries.
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