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paganity Now rare or Obs.|pəˈgænɪtɪ|
[ad. late L. pāgānitās (Cod. Theod. 438), f. pāgān-us pagan: cf. Christianity. Cf. OF. paieneté.]
The condition or quality of being pagan; paganism.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Mark Pref. 5 Rome, which coulde not forget her old paganitie. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. 561 There is something of imperfection..something of paganity likewise necessarily consequent thereupon. 1837Carlyle Let. to Sterling 25 Dec., What Christianity is to us and what Paganity is, and all manner of other anities. 1866J. B. Rose Ecl. & Georg. Virg. 142 Britain in primitive paganity is not ‘almost divided from the world’. |