Sample Sentences forheathen (editor-reviewed)
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The crusaders called them heathens and they called the crusaders infidels.heathens = people who do not believe in Christianity
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Mind your manners, you little heathen.heathen = someone who is not civilized (said humorously)
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When the book of Psalms talks about heathens, it is talking about people who do not believe in the god of Israel.heathens = people who do not believe in the god of the Bible
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The Spanish colony prohibited heathen worship.heathen = non-Christian
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"—can't any Christian judges an' lawyers make up for heathen juries," Jem muttered. (source)heathen = uncivilized or immoral
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Madeline: You've been downgraded from heathen to heretic. (source)heathen = someone who doesn't believe in the right religion
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Why don't you just write down that you're an absolute heathen! (source)heathen = someone who is uncivilized
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The heathens used a house of God to conceal their keystone. (source)heathens = people who do not believe in Christianity
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He also said he was sorry for her death, and would say a prayer for her, although what sort of a prayer I could not imagine, as he was a heathenish sort of man, with all his tricks and fortune-telling.† (source)standard suffix: Adding the suffix "-ish" means having the characteristics of. This is the same pattern you see in words like childish and foolish.
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It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.† (source)
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Not that I would here insinuate that he was heathenishly inclined to believe in or to worship the goddess Nemesis; for, in fact, I am convinced he never heard of her name.† (source)standard suffix: Adding the suffix "-ishly" means in a manner having the characteristics of. This is the same pattern you see in words like childishly and foolishly.
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The heathen island in the West Indies? (source)heathen = an offensive term for people who are not Christian
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These white folks aren't heathens.† (source)
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It was their sermons we grew up listening to in a church bare of adornment, their notions of what was heathenish that hushed the Sabbath and quieted the church hells, that took the ale from the tavern and the lace from the dresses, the ribands from the Maypole and the laughter out of the public lanes.† (source)
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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!† (source)
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That my daughter and my niece I discovered dancing like heathen in the forest? (source)heathen = uncivilized and immoral people
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