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单词 pagany
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paganyn.

Brit. /ˈpeɪɡəni/, /ˈpeɪɡn̩i/, U.S. /ˈpeɪɡəni/
Forms: 1500s paganie, 1500s 1900s– pagany.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pagania.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin pagania the non-Christian world (11th cent.; late 14th cent. in a British source; already in 8th cent. in sense ‘pagan rite’; < paganus pagan n. and adj. + -ia -y suffix3). Compare earlier payeny n.
Now rare.
The non-Christian world; a place representing or holding ancient or alternative beliefs resembling those of paganism.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > [noun] > person > plural and collective
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c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lviii. 197 He slew Sorbryn, the moost valyant knyght in all pagany [Fr. payennye].
1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne i. 14 Where midst vnnumbred troopes of Paganie [It. fra gl'infiniti popoli Pagani]..few of his Countrey are.
1928 W. C. Williams Voy. to Pagany i. i. 17 So this is France. Land!.. Now I am come home [from America] to old Pagany [sc. Europe].
1981 P. Mariani William Carlos Williams vi. 291 Richard Johns, the founder of Pagany, named it in honour of Williams's novel. Williams wrote to him [in an unpublished letter] on 12 July 1929 saying that ‘Pagany as a name for his venture disturbed him. He'd meant Europe by that appellation, not America, though there was a deeper sense in which America too was pagan.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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