pagandom

[ pey-guhn-duhm ]

noun

1. the part of the world inhabited by pagans.
2. pagans collectively.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pagandom¹

First recorded in 1850–55; pagan + -dom

Example Sentences

This moan conveyed to such, as had often heard it, not only strong dissent, but pity for human credulity, ignorance, and error, especially of course when it blinded men to the merits of Pagandom.

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In all pagandom there was not a hospital, asylum, almshouse, or organized charity of any sort.

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So we observe, by the text above quoted, the Christian Savior and Lawgiver copied, or reproduced, an old pagan rite as a part of his professedly new and spiritual system, one of the most ancient and widely-extended formulas of pagandom.

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The Cossack and the peasant mob have poured blood on the country, and joined pagandom against their own mother.

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We saw black swarms of pagandom,—horse at the side of horse, and man near man, standing in a dense mass in the form of a sickle.

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