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单词 paganism
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paganismn.adj.

Brit. /ˈpeɪɡənɪz(ə)m/, /ˈpeɪɡn̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈpeɪɡəˌnɪz(ə)m/
Forms: late Middle English–1500s paganysme, 1500s–1600s paganisme, 1600s paganizme, 1600s– paganism.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin paganismus.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin paganismus a non-Christian or pre-Christian religion (late 4th cent. in Augustine), the land of the heathens, the heathen world (12th cent.) < paganus pagan n. + -ismus -ism suffix. Compare Middle French, French paganisme (1546). Compare slightly earlier paynimry n.
A. n.
1.
a. A religion other than one of the main religions of the world; spec. a non-Christian or pre-Christian religion, esp. considered as ancient or primitive. Also: the religious beliefs and practices of such a religion; the state or condition of non-Christian people; heathenism.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > [noun]
heathenessec900
heathenshipa1000
heathendomc1000
idolatrya1325
mammetryc1330
spiritual fornicationa1340
whoredomc1350
prepucya1382
miscreancea1393
imagery1395
gentility?a1425
paganismc1425
paganityc1450
prepucec1475
Mahometry1481
superstitiousness1526
uncircumcision1526
whoring1530
idolry1535
paynimhood1543
image-worshipping1544
paganrya1550
idololatry1550
gentilism1561
old religion1567
heathenishness1571
image worship1572
heathenry1577
irreligiousness?1577
idolatrousness1583
uncircumcisedness1583
irreligion1598
ethnicism1600
infidelity1603
superstition1603
heathenism1605
idolism1608
miscreancy1611
misreligion1623
Baalisma1625
iconolatry1624
idolomania1624
idolomany1624
idolizing1637
idol-worship1667
ethnicity1772
symbololatry1828
Baal-worship1834
irreligionism1843
gentiledom1844
triology1894
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 367 (MED) In honeste Sche ladde hir lyf, and in deuocioun, After þe ritys and þe religioun Of paganysme vsed in þo dawes.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. xix. f. 158 They goe about a witty thing, to make one religion of Christianitie, Jewishnesse, and Paganisme, as it were of patches sowed together.
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. li. 232 Peruse all Lawes, euen Paganizme.
1690 J. Norris Christian Blessedness 135 The most generous and brave Spirits, those whom Paganism has Deifi'd, and Christianity has Sainted.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xxxix. 83 Their Religion is a Complex of Mahometism and Paganism.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1846) II. xxi. 248 The divisions of Christianity suspended the ruin of Paganism.
1833 J. H. Newman Arians 4th Cent. i. 90 The book of Genesis contains a record of the dispensation of natural religion, or paganism, as well as of the patriarchal.
1877 C. W. Shields Final Philos. 236 The Latin apologists..had denounced the myths and oracles of paganism as Satanic mimicries.
1969 J. T. Burtchaell Catholic Theories of Biblical Inspiration since 1810 vii. 303 The individual Christian can and certainly should rewalk the route from paganism to Christ.
1992 Church Times 7 Feb. 20/1 In the course of two centuries the Church gradually gained an ascendancy over paganism by a pincer movement.
b. The non-Christian world; the world outside Christendom. Obsolete.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > [noun] > person > plural and collective
heathenessec900
heathenc1000
paynimc1275
Barbarya1300
Saracen1303
payenyc1330
nationsa1382
paynimryc1384
ginga1400
heathenheada1400
payemy?a1400
paynimy1481
paganyc1515
gentility1546
paganism1605
gentilisma1638
pagandom1691
heathendom1860
heathenrya1890
1605 W. Camden Remaines 32 Names of unhappy disastre are as rife some-where, as ever they were in Paganisme.
1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes i. xxvii. 123 The revenge of those outrages, which from time to time all Paganisme had received from the Emperours of Greece.
c1650 Don Bellianis 18 The great destruction made of his people by you, and in all Paganisme.
c. Pantheism or nature-worship; a set of religious beliefs or practices derived from ancient myths or religions; (now) esp. neopaganism. Also: a particular affinity for or sensitivity to the supposed spiritual or mystical aspects of nature.
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society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of nature
physiolatry1818
nature-worship1820
paganism1854
naturism1880
physitism1885
1854 O. W. Wight tr. V. Cousin Lect. True, Beautiful, & Good (ed. 3) i. v. 120 When the Christian religion triumphed, it brought humanity under a discipline that puts a rein upon this deplorable mysticism. But how many times has it brought back..! It was to appear especially at the renaissance of the schools and of the genius of Paganism in the sixteenth century.
1925 G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man i. vi. 130 It rests on something that is really a very human and intelligible sentiment, like the local invocations of the numen in popular paganism.
1998 T. Clancy Rainbow Six xxxiv. 617 Both were druids, both nature-worshipers, the new kind of paganism spawned in the west.
2. The supposed character, quality, or moral condition associated with non-Christian or pre-Christian peoples; lack of sophistication; pagan or primitive style.
ΚΠ
1844 in A. R. MacEwen Life & Lett. J. Cairns (1895) 186 This spurious reviviscence of paganism is a blot upon the whole Munich School of Art.
1874 J. Fergusson in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 765 Views opposed to the Paganism of St. Paul's or to the attempt to mediævalize it.
1874 J. Parker Paraclete xix. 359 The paganism of his logic should not be taken for more than it is worth.
1983 C. Ozick Art & Ardor (1984) 163 It is the religion of Art, and just as a Jew feels alien to the aesthetic paganism of a churched American, so now he feels alien to the aesthetic paganism of the streets.
3. A scene, feature, etc., that appears pagan in its primitiveness or wildness; (also) a pagan belief or practice.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > [noun] > feature of
paganism1882
1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 862/2 The uncathedralled paganisms of American scenery and life.
1883 Athenæum 15 Dec. 783/1 Their crowning features are mere paganisms, quite out of keeping with the designs they deface.
1902 E. Thomas Horae Solitariae 129 Round the great open Welsh hearths we found a sufficient need in the sweet paganisms of a fire worship.
1993 J. Morris Oxf. iv. xii. 162 Some high-domed mid-Victorian sage—embroiled without doubt in the doctrinal controversies of the day,..easily at home among the profundities, if not the paganisms, of the ancients.
B. adj.
= pagan adj.; pre-Christian or non-Christian. Obsolete.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > [adjective]
heathenishc893
heathen971
misbelievedc1225
Barbarya1300
payenc1300
miscreantc1330
paynimc1330
uncircumcideda1382
uncircumciseda1400
gentilec1400
heathenly1415
paganismc1425
profanec1450
pagan1464
ethnical?a1475
payemec1480
miscredentc1500
heathenish1535
whorish1535
ethnic1542
ethnish1542
idolous1546
mammetrous1546
gentilish1550
idolatrous?1550
idololatrical1550
infidel1551
idolatrical1556
gentilical1573
paganical?1573
idolish1577
heatheny1580
irreligious1585
paganish1589
gentilic1603
idolaster1608
gentilitious1613
heathenous1613
idolatrizing1614
image-worshipping1621
misreligious1623
Mahounda1625
gentilizing1637
idololatrousa1641
infidelious1648
Baalitical1652
national1661
idolatric1669
paganic1676
gentilized1684
Baalish1690
idololatrica1711
infidelical1802
semi-fidel1834
Greekish1851
paganistic1853
unselect1882
goyish1888
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 7004 (MED) Þe goddes of paganysme rytes..Be made of gold, of siluer, and of stoon.
a1450 (c1435) J. Lydgate Life SS. Edmund & Fremund (Harl.) 417 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 404 That goddis creature..Sholde in helle eternal peyne endure Thoruh mysbeleue for paganysme rage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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