heathen
noun
(in historical contexts) a member of a people that do not acknowledge the God of the Bible; a pagan.
heathenness
-
a word derived from
heathen.
Example Sentences
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Christianity was now to be brought face to face with heathenness, which fact our author seems to have recognized under all his terror.
From Stories of Childhood by Johnson, Rossiter
And I was only fifteen, alii kapo over them by blood of heathenness and right of hereditary heathen rule, with a penchant for Jules Verne and shortly to sail for England for my education!
From On the Makaloa Mat by London, Jack
