paganry

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

pagan +‎ -ry

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

paganry (usually uncountable, plural paganries)

  1. Paganism.
  2. (countable) A body of pagans.
    Synonym: heathenry
    • 1881, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “Historical”, in Camoens: His Life and His Lusiads. A Commentary […], volume I, London: Bernard Quaritch, […], →OCLC, § 2 (D.D. Joam II. and Manoel), footnote 1, page 292:
      [Afonso de] Albuquerque, throughout his career, favoured the Hindu paganry against the Hindí Moslems, finding the former much less intractable.
    • 1960, J. D. Chambers, “The Place of Economic History in Historical Studies”, in N. B. Harte, editor, Study of Economic History: Collected Inaugural Lectures 1893-1970, published 1975, page 240:
      Yet you could hunt for slaves in the countries round about: Celtic Christians of the far West, generally treated as heretics; Islam; Slavonic, Baltic or Finnish 'paganries'
    • 2008, Bill Kauffman, Ain't my America, page 41:
      missionary progressives ready to teach the paganry the rudiments of tithing and toothbrushing

References[edit]

  • Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, 1954
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