heathen
IPA: hˈiðʌn
noun
- A pagan; someone who is neither Christian nor Jewish (other Abrahamic or monotheistic religions may or may not be included)
- (by extension) An uncultured or uncivilized person, philistine.
- An adherent of the Germanic neo-pagan faith of Heathenry.
- Alternative letter-case form of Heathen (an adherent of the Germanic neo-pagan faith of Heathenry). [An adherent of the Germanic neo-pagan faith of Heathenry.]
adjective
- Not adhering to an Abrahamic religion; pagan.
- (by extension) Uncultured; uncivilized; savage, philistine.
- Pertaining or adhering to the Germanic neo-pagan faith Heathenry.
- Alternative letter-case form of Heathen (pertaining or adhering to the Germanic neo-pagan faith Heathenry). [Pertaining or adhering to the Germanic neo-pagan faith Heathenry.]
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Examples of "heathen" in Sentences
- A heathen is less than a Muslim and a woman is “less than” an man.
- A heathen is less than a Christian and a woman is “less than” an man.
- The reproach of the heathen is here for ever silenced and justly retorted.
- Again, this heathen is confused by your "living like Christ" examples! mrs b
- Suggestions from what we call the heathen world seemed to accord with his Gospel of the Wild.
- The distinction between being a Christian or a heathen is not reducible to a private/public distinction in part because the privately assured
- Can you tell them farewell, farewell no more to meet them on earth, can you Oh! can you leave them and native land far, far in heathen lands to dwell, can, you say,
- When Christian missionaries invade what they call a heathen country, they are followed in a little while by merchants and traders, and in a few days afterward by the army.
- The difference between the predictions of the Spirit and the oracles of the heathen is remarkable; the Spirit speaks expressly, but the oracles of the heathen were always doubtful and uncertain.
- It had made more than two millions of heathen in our country; and so long as the cries of these _heathen at home_ entered the ears of our young men and young women, they could not, dare not, go abroad.
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