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heathenesse arch.|ˈhiːðəˌnɛs|
Forms: 1 hǽðe(n)nes, -nys, 3 hæðenesse, heþinesse, 3–5 heþen-, hethenesse, -es, -isse, -nes, etc., 6 heathennesse, heath-, heythnesse, 6–7, 9 heathenesse, -(n)ess.
[OE. hǽðennes, -nys, f. hæðen heathen + -ness. From an early date one of the two n's was generally omitted, so that the word was sometimes treated as analogous to such words of French origin as noblesse, Lyonesse.]
1. The quality or condition of being heathen; the belief and practice of the heathen; heathenism.
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. iii. xxii. [xxx.] (1890) 250 He to hæðenisse [v.r. hæðennysse] wæs ᵹehwyrfed. c1205Lay. 29388 And forsaken godes mæsse, and luuien hæðenesse. 1388Wyclif 1 Chron. xxii. 2 Alle conuersis fro hethenesse to the lawe of Israel. c1430Life St. Kath. (1884) 35 Aftur I had leyde be-syde me þe errour of hethenesse. 1540R. Hyrde tr. Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom (1592) Bb v, When we couple..Paganisme and heathennesse, unto Christianitie: and the devill to God. 1581Marbeck Bk. Notes 627 Then shall the vnfruitfull, rough and woodye heathnesse..bee tourned vnto the religion of Christes congregation or Church. 1848Lytton Harold i. i, Merriments, savouring of heathenesse.
2. Heathendom, the heathen world; the lands outside Christendom, including, in Middle English, Muslim lands.
c1205Lay. 16631 Þe wes in hæðenesse king of muchele mæhte. 1297R. Glouc. (1724) 480 Saladin nom the holi croys, & to hethenesse it ber. a1300Cursor M. 2102 Asie..es þe best, for þar in es Bath haly land and hethyennes. c1380Sir Ferumb. 2187 In al heȝenis ys no Sarsyn wikkeder þan is he. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxxviii. 263 His fame..sprang so ferre that it come in to hethnes and barbarye. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. 161 Divers provinces of Christendome and of Heathenesse. 1828Blackw. Mag. 399 The event was not such as could bear trumpeting in Heathenesse. |