About The Word Heathen
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Heathen
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What's The Definition Of Heathen?
[n] a person who does not acknowledge your God
[adj] not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam Synonyms | Synonyms for Heathen: gentile | heathenish | infidel | irreligious | pagan | pagan Related Terms | Find terms related to Heathen: agnostic | allotheist | allotheistic | animist | animistic | atheist | atheistic | barbarian | barbaric | barbarous | bibliolatrous | bookless | chthonian | deceived | disbeliever | disbelieving | doubting | ethnic | faithless | fetishistic | functionally illiterate | gentile | godless | Gothic | grammarless | heathenish | heretic | heretical | hoodwinked | idol worshiping | idolater | idolatress | idolatric | idolatrical | idolatrous | idolistic | ill-educated | illiterate | infidel | infidelic | irreligious | led astray | lowbrow | minimifidian | misinformed | misinstructed | mistaught | nonbeliever | nonintellectual | nullifidian | pagan | paganish | paganistic | pagano-Christian | pantheistic | Philistine | polytheist | polytheistic | primitive | profane | rude | savage | sceptic | sceptical | secularist | unbeliever | unbelieving | unbooked | unbookish | unbooklearned | unbriefed | unchristian | uncivilized | uncultivated | uncultured | unedified | uneducated | unenlightened | unerudite | unguided | uninstructed | unintellectual | unlearned | unlettered | unliterary | unread | unrefined | unscholarly | unschooled | unstudious | untaught | untutored | zoolatrous See Also | idol worshiper | idolater | idoliser | idolizer | nonreligious person | paynim Heathen In Webster's Dictionary \Hea"then\ (?; 277), n.; pl. {Heathens}or collectively
{Heathen}. [OE. hethen, AS. h??en, prop. an adj. fr. h??
heath, and orig., therefore, one who lives in the country or
on the heaths and in the woods (cf. pagan, fr. pagus
village); akin to OS. h??in, adj., D. heiden a heathen, G.
heide, OHG. heidan, Icel. hei?inn, adj., Sw. heden, Goth.
haipn?, n. fem. See {Heath}, and cf. {Hoiden}.]
1. An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or
those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true
God; a pagan; an idolater.
2. An irreligious person.
If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may
preach it and they may hear it, and yet both
continue unconverted heathens. --V. Knox.
{The heathen}, as the term is used in the Scriptures, all
people except the Jews; now used of all people except
Christians, Jews, and Mohammedans.
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for
thine inheritance. --Ps. ii. 8.
Syn: Pagan; gentile. See {Pagan}.
\Hea"then\, a. 1. Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author. ``The heathen philosopher.'' ``All in gold, like heathen gods.'' --Shak. 2. Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish. 3. Irreligious; scoffing. |
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