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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪɡənɹi/

名詞

paganry (usually uncountable, 複数形 paganries)

1. Paganism.
2. (countable) A body of pagans.

   Synonym: heathenry

   • 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

参照

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