单词 | pagany |
释义 | paganyn. Now rare. The non-Christian world; a place representing or holding ancient or alternative beliefs resembling those of paganism. ΘΚΠ 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 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 Williams wrote to him [in an unpublished letter] on 12 July 1929 saying that ‘Pagany as a name for his venture disturbed him.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). < n.c1515 |
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