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Another word for heathen

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Modifier
  1. See also:

    primitive

    impious

    Antonyms:
Noun
  1. See also:

    pagan

    skeptic

    pagan

    barbarian

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Sentence Examples

  • This was no doubt a place of religious sacrifice in heathen times.

  • 754 at the hands of some heathen Frisians.

  • He belongs to the heathen Gnosis, and is in his essence the same as the Babylonian Marduk.

  • 4), the latter taxes the Catholics with having turned the sacrifices of the heathen into agapes, their idols into martyrs, whom they worship with similar rites.

  • By the end of it, any traces of heathen faith, and even of Scandinavian speech, must have been mere survivals.

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