gentilism

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English

Etymology

See gentile, and compare French gentilisme.

Noun

gentilism (countable and uncountable, plural gentilisms)

  1. heathenism; paganism; the worship of pagan gods
  2. a heathenish practice.
    • 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 36:
      In Scotland (especially among the Highlanders) the woemen doe make a Curtsey to the New-moon. I have known one in England doe it, and our English woemen in the Country doe retain (some of them) a touch of this Gentilisme still.
  3. tribal feeling; devotion to one's gens

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gentilism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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