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the belief and practice of a heathen people
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  • Hǽþendómes gentilitatis (Gregorius nostris parentibus errorem tetrae

    gentilitatis

    abstulit,
      Ald. 74, 13), An. Ox. 5156.

  • Hú hé of hǽþendóme mæge tó crístendóme ðurh rihtne geleáfan and ðurh fulluht cuman,

      Wlfst. 32, 10.

  • Ǽnne crístendóm ánrǽdlíce healdan and ǽlcne hǽðendóm georne forbúgan,

      Ll. Th. i. 314, 9.

  • Ǽlcne hǽðendóm oferhogian,

      350, 12.

  • Ǽnne God lufian and ǽlcne hǽðendóm georne áscunian,

      316, 19.
people among whom (or district in which) paganism prevails. v. Crísten-dóm ; II :— Ꝥ man crístene men . . . on hǽðendóme (cf. on hǽðene leóde, 304, 16) húru ne gebringe, Ll. Th. i. 378, 1.
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v. hǽþen-nes.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hǽþen-dóm.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/51581.

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