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pay⋅nim

  [pey-nim]
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–noun Archaic.
1. a pagan or heathen.
2. a Muslim.
3. pagandom; heathendom.
Origin:
1200–50; ME: pagan (n. and adj.), pagan countries, heathendom < OF pai(e)nime < LL pāgānismus paganism

Related forms:
pay⋅nim⋅hood, noun
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pay·nim   (pā'nĭm)   
n.   Archaic

  1. A non-Christian, especially a Muslim.

  2. A pagan or heathen.


[Middle English painim, from Old French paienime, heathendom, from Late Latin pāgānismus, from pāgānus, pagan; see pagan.]
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Word Origin & History

paynim 
c.1250, "heathen lands," from O.Fr. paienime, from L.L. paganismus "heathendom" (Augustine), from paganus "heathen" (see pagan); mistaken meaning "a heathen person" (1382) is via phrases such as paynim lands.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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