Definition of Pagan

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Definition of Pagan

Pagan

One who worships false gods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew.

Of or pertaining to pagans; relating to the worship or the worshipers of false goods; heathen; idolatrous, as, pagan tribes or superstitions.

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Pagan Quotations

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
Pope John Paul II

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
Lord Byron

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.
Julian Clary

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.
Israel Zangwill

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
David Herbert Lawrence

It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
Victoria Woodhull

I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.
John McGahern

It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.
Dixie Lee Ray

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
John Lothrop Motley

The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties.
John Foxe

Pagan Translations

pagan in Dutch is heidens
pagan in German is heidnisch
pagan in Latin is paganus
pagan in Spanish is pagano
pagan in Swedish is hedning, hednisk

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