pagan
IPA: pˈeɪgʌn
noun
- A person not adhering to a main world religion; a follower of a pantheistic or nature-worshipping religion.
- (by extension, derogatory) An uncivilized or unsocialized person.
- (by extension, derogatory) An unruly, badly educated child.
- A male given name from Latin.
- (uncommon) A female given name.
- A surname.
- (dated) The city of Bagan, Myanmar.
- (historical) The 9th- to 13th-century Burmese kingdom which had its capital at this city.
adjective
- Relating to, characteristic of religions that differ from main world religions.
- (by extension, derogatory) Savage, immoral, uncivilized, wild.
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Examples of "pagan" in Sentences
- He also deleted the link to paganism.
- What is the actual symbol of Paganism
- The man is interested in all pagan religions.
- The origin of the stories is from pagan times.
- These are not peculiar to what we call pagan people.
- Compare this to the coverage of paganism or economics.
- The poem expressly says that the people in it are pagan.
- Neopaganism is focused on the modern revival of paganism.
- The article on the historical Viking Age religion is at Norse paganism.
- He supported the restoration of Hellenic paganism as the state religion.
- Frankly, the barbarian status of the Franks is unrelated to their paganism.
- The word pagan comes from the Latin word paganus, meaning “country dweller,” or peasant.
- Other theories imply that the cross symbolizes the four quarters of the moon, important in pagan ritual.
- Linguistically, the word pagan derives from the Latin word "paganus", which means "a villager", or a "country dweller".
- Mr. Caldigate should be what he called a pagan had been represented by Mr. Bromley to his friends as a great misfortune, and especially
- That Mr. Caldigate should be what he called a pagan had been represented by Mr. Bromley to his friends as a great misfortune, and especially a misfortune to the squire himself.
- In spite of the fact that he was an Asiatic by nature, he despised what he called the pagan ceremonies of the ritualists, and distrusted what he felt to be the atheistic tendency of science.
- The worship of all other gods the Christians held to be sinful idol-worship, a deadly sin in the eyes of God, and they were willing to give up their lives rather than perform the simplest rite of what they termed pagan worship (R. 28).
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