Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word heathenifm.
Examples
-
To do otherwife, is, in efFedl, to renounce our religion, and return to heathenifm.
Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions: By George Horne, ... ... 1794
-
The firft teachers of Chriftiatiity in Britain, were called, in the original Gaelic language, Kule Dia or Culdees, that is, fervants of God, in diftiti&ion to the former teachers of heathenifm, the Druids, and taught the religion of the true God and our Saviour in much purity and fimplicity for Tome centuries.
-
Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus and Plu - tarch, differ from each other, and are obfcure in explaining the rife of heathenifm: while no mo -
-
Dr. Pocock treats this as a conceit both abfurd and impious, as favouring more of heathenifm and ido - latry, than of the pure inftitution of a Divine Law.
-
And as this city was famous in, the times of heathenifm for the temple of Diana, fo ip the times of Chriftianity, it was adorrtHid wich a beautiful and magi nificent churchy honoured with the name of St. 'John, who for a confi - derable time refided in this city, and governed the churches of Alia.
The New Christian's Magazine: Being an Universal Repository of Divine Knowledge 1783
-
In the younger days of heathenifm the Mufes w devoted to the fame fervlce: the language in which ol Hefiod addrefles them is this:
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779
-
Thank Heaven, you cannot now retire into the pure light of nature; vou cannot return to oiiginal heathenifm: for the Chrillian day - hath penetrated that gloom with millions of glorious rays; fo tliat you ar€ indebted to revelation, even for that light by which vou oppofe it.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.