Heathen
['hiːð(ə)n] or ['hiðn]
Definition
(noun.) a person who does not acknowledge your god.
(adj.) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam .
Editor: Woodrow--From WordNet
Definition
(pl. ) of Heathen
(n.) An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater.
(n.) An irreligious person.
(a.) Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author.
(a.) Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish.
(a.) Irreligious; scoffing.
Typist: Osborn
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. & a. Gentile, pagan, heathenish.
Typist: Stanley
Definition
n. an inhabitant of an unchristian country one neither Christian Jewish nor Mohammedan: (B.) the Gentiles: a pagan: an irreligious person.—adj. pagan irreligious.—n. Hea′thendom the condition of a heathen: those regions of the world where heathenism prevails.—v.t. Hea′thenise to make heathen or heathenish.—adj. Hea′thenish relating to the heathen: rude: uncivilised: cruel.—adv. Hea′thenishly.—ns. Hea′thenishness; Hea′thenism the religious system of the heathens: paganism: barbarism; Hea′thenry heathenism: heathendom.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel. According to Professor Howison of the California State University Hebrews are heathens.
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Examples
- Oh, what heathen advice! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- At all events, Miss Ophelia knew of nothing else to do; and, therefore, applied her mind to her heathen with the best diligence she could command. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The heathen mythology, the Sybilline oracles, the myths of Plato, the dreams of Neo-Platonists are equally regarded by him as matter of fact. Plato. The Republic.
- She is the daughter of a heathen old man named Betteredge--long, too long, tolerated in my aunt's family. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- A magnificent sermon was preached by my gifted friend on the heathen indifference of the world to the sinfulness of little sins. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Never separate the two, like the heathen waggoner. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It is from the well of St Dunstan, said he, in which, betwixt sun and sun, he baptized five hundred heathen Danes and Britons--blessed be his name! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Peace to thee, kind and selfish, vain and generous old heathen! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He has overcome the heathen philosopher Averro?s, who lies below discomfited. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He stared at me in heathen astonishment. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- There is sometimes a ritual of laboratory instruction as well as of heathen religion. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And I will scatter you among the heathen, and I will draw out a sword after you; and your land shall be desolate and your cities waste. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It would certainly be a greater self-denial to receive heathen among us, than to send missionaries to them; but I think we would do it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- You pray for the heathen abroad; pray also for the heathen at home. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Dirty, ugly, disagreeable to all the senses, in body a common creature of the common streets, only in soul a heathen. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We have seen that they would have been safer among the ancient heathens, with whom the rites of hospitality were sacred. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Thus much for the sentiments of the ancient heathens. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Besides, what succour couldst thou have from me, a peaceful Pilgrim, against two armed heathens? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Heathens and savage tribes hold that doctrine, but Christians and civilised nations disown it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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