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

If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.
Saint Patrick

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

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.
David Bowie

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

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.
George Whitefield

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

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

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.
Roland Allen

I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.
Greta Scacchi

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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