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Educated, by Tara Westover
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There was scarcely a person in the church that Dad hadn't called a gentile—for visiting a doctor or for sending their kids to the public school—but that day he seemed to forget about California socialism and the Illuminati.†
p. 82.6
I'd seen women dressed this way before—Dad called them gentiles—and I'd always avoided getting too near them, as if their immorality might be catching.†
p. 154.2
Dad said there were gentiles everywhere—that most Mormons were gentiles, they just didn't know it.†
p. 154.7 *
Dad said there were gentiles everywhere—that most Mormons were gentiles, they just didn't know it.†
p. 154.7
I thought about Shannon's tank and pajamas, and suddenly realized that probably everyone at BYU was a gentile.†
p. 154.8
Her clothes were a kind of shibboleth to me; they signaled that she was not a gentile, and for a few hours I felt less alone.†
p. 154.9
But here, in this loud, bright place, surrounded by gentiles disguised as saints, I clung to every truth, every doctrine he had given me.†
p. 156.6
I understood now: I could stand with my family, or with the gentiles, on the one side or the other, but there was no foothold in between.†
p. 159.5
She was the only person I'd met at the university who didn't seem like a gentile.†
p. 161.6
The movie was terrible, worse than I'd expected, the kind of movie only a gentile would see.†
p. 170.7
But it was hard for me to see Charles as a gentile.†
p. 170.7

Definitions:

(1) (gentile)
a person or characteristic of a person who is not Jewish; or who is Christian
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely, gentile can refer to a person who is not Mormon; or a person who does not believe in God.