heathen
noun
(in historical contexts) a member of a people that do not acknowledge the God of the Bible; a pagan.
half-heathen
-
a word derived from
heathen.
Example Sentences
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In dwelling on these ideals the poet loses sight of the seafarer and his half-heathen associations, and as inevitably rises to a contemplation of the cheering hopes of a future life afforded by Christianity.”
From Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose by Various
He fell finally with that other half-heathen power in the North, with which he had made an alliance against the remains of Roman and Byzantine culture.
From The New Jerusalem by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
First he was a Gentile; the land in which the miracle was wrought was the half-heathen country on the east side of the Sea of Galilee.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren
Bacchanalian dances, which have originated in similar causes among all the rude nations of the earth, and the wild extravagancies of a heated imagination, were the constant accompaniments of this half-heathen, half-Christian festival.
From The Black Death The Dancing Mania by B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington
The subjection of England to an alien, half-heathen aristocracy must have caused many difficulties to the English Church.
From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Laurence Marcellus Larson
