heathenism

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

HE'ATHENISM, noun Gentilism; paganism; ignorance of the true God; idolatry; the rites or system of religion of a pagan nation. 1. Rudeness; barbarism; ignorance.
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