paganistic
Americanadjective
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having beliefs, practices, or habits characteristic of a pagan.
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Disparaging. resembling or characteristic of non-Christian or polytheistic religions.
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The early Christians, disgusted with the sexual degradation of the paganistic and materialistic Romans, preached a doctrine of sexual asceticism as the ideal for those who would rise to the heights of spiritual life.
From Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life by Bigelow, Maurice Alpheus
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