Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

heathenhood

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hea-then-hood
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Uncountable

noun

The state or condition of being a heathen.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Hegbert, in addition to his belief that fornicators were destined to clean the urinals in hell, also believed that communism was “a sickness that doomed mankind to heathenhood."
"Heathenhood and heathendom."
"Indians who were enraged and dumbfounded at the Spaniards' barbarity, heathenhood, and moral shipwreck. So really, you said, that means that if Christianity got there before the Spaniards, then what were the Spaniards doing there?"

Etymology

From Middle English hethenhod, haithenhede, equivalent to heathen + -hood.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: hethenhod
Suffix: heathen

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does heathenhood mean?: Heathendom
Where does heathenhood come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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