OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 27265

heathen

/ˈhiːðən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pagana • pagano
A pagan; someone who is neither Christian, Jewish, nor Muslim (other Abrahamic or monotheistic religions may or may not be included)
On hearing his cries two heathen who were hunting on the lagoon ran up, and they were bold enough to try to avenge the injury, making ready to shoot arrows at the soldiers, who fir…
V. Knox If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted heathens.
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📚 noun • entry_id 56667

Heathen

Meanings (ES + gloss)
pagano
An adherent of the Germanic neo-pagan faith of Heathenry.
[…] these examples, and others I have come across, illustrate most strikingly how Heathens follow a reactionary politics carefully constructed by politicians and pundits to help wh…
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