heathenhood

English

Etymology

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

Noun

heathenhood (uncountable)

1. Heathendom
   • 2014, Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember:

     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.

2. The state or condition of being a heathen.

   Heathenhood and heathendom.

   • 2002, Reinaldo Arenas, Hallucinations:

     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?