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10 letters · 18 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism
originFrom heathen + -ism, coined in the 17th century in place of the then-obsolete heathendom. First attested in Francis Bacon's Of the advancement of learning (1605), II. xiv. §9: "The heresy of the Anthropomorphites … and the opinion of Epicurus, answerable to the same in heathenism, who supposed the gods to be in human shape" (OED).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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- hematines 14
- mainsheet 14
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- heathens 14
- insheath 14
- hematein 13
- hematine 13
- hematins 13
- methanes 13
- heathen 13