Definition of Heathen

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Heathen

of Heathen

An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater.

An irreligious person.

Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author.

Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish.

Irreligious; scoffing.

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Heathen Quotations

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
Carl Jung

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.
Polly Toynbee

However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.
David Bowie

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
Jeanette Winterson

Heathen Translations

heathen in German is heidnisch
heathen in Italian is etnico
heathen in Norwegian is hedensk, hedning
heathen in Spanish is pagano
heathen in Swedish is hednisk, hedning


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