All 4 Uses of
heathen
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Why, look you, she may cover it with a brooch, or such like heathenish adornment, and so walk the streets as brave as ever!†
Chpt 2 *
- I have met with grievous mishaps by sea and land, and have been long held in bonds among the heathen-folk to the southward; and am now brought hither by this Indian to be redeemed out of my captivity.†
Chpt 3
- Such was the sympathy of Nature—that wild, heathen Nature of the forest, never subjugated by human law, nor illumined by higher truth—with the bliss of these two spirits!†
Chpt 18
- My one sufficient object was to greet that pious friend of mine, the Apostle Eliot, and rejoice with him over the many precious souls he hath won from heathendom!†
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(heathen) someone who is not civilized or not moral -- typically said humorously
or:
an offensive term for a person who does not believe in a preferred religion -- especially someone who grew up in a culture that is not familiar with the religion