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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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Why don't you just write down that you're an absolute heathen! (source)heathen = someone who is uncivilized
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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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What will the heathen say of us when they hear that we receive osu into our midst? (source)heathen = people who do not believe in Christianity
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The heathens used a house of God to conceal their keystone. (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)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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Madeline: You've been downgraded from heathen to heretic. (source)heathen = someone who doesn't believe in the right religion
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The Church was willing to accept a little bit of xenoglossia if it helped convert heathens, as in the case of St. Louis Bertrand who converted thousands of Indians in the sixteenth century, spreading glossolalia across the continent faster than smallpox.† (source)heathens = people who are not civilized or not moral -- typically said humorously OR an offensive term for people who do not believe in a preferred religion
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This is a heathenish bunch.† (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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The heathen island in the West Indies? (source)heathen = an offensive term for people who are not Christian
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