heathenryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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heathenry (usually uncountable, 複数形 heathenries)

1. The state of being heathen.
   • 1921, James Branch Cabell, Chivalry^[1]:

     It was as though she were some tinted and lavishly adorned statue of barbaric heathenry, and he her postulant; and her large eyes appeared to judge an immeasurable path, beyond him.

   • 1917, G. K. Chesterton, A Short History of England^[2]:

     In the simpler case of northern heathenry the civilization spread with a simplier progress.

   • 1909, James Branch Cabell, Chivalry^[3]:

     It was as though she were some tinted and lavishly adorned statue of barbaric heathenry, and he her postulant; and her large eyes appeared to judge an immeasurable path, beyond him.