paganry

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English

Etymology

pagan +‎ -ry

Pronunciation

Noun

paganry (usually uncountable, plural paganries)

  1. Paganism.
  2. (countable) A body of pagans.
    • 1881, Richard Francis Burton, Camoens: his life and his Lusiads, page 292:
      Albuquerque, throughout his career, favoured the Hindu paganry against the Hindi 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 (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

Synonyms

References

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