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Meanings of heathenish in English

Not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam.

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        1
        The heathenish selfishness of business competition started me away from the world.
        Life of Father Hecker
        2
        He had never seen anything at once so heathenish and so exquisite.
        The Place Beyond the Winds
        3
        He had a heathenish amount of machine-guns and he used them beautifully.
        Mr. Standfast
        4
        You're coming to make me feel confoundedly uncomfortable in my heathenish life.
        He Fell in Love with His Wife
        5
        Don't go to being fools by giving a child a heathenish name.
        Family Pride; Or, Purified by Suffering
        6
        How utterly heathenish is our oblivion of God in our daily life!
        Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
        7
        There was something both heathenish and pathetic in the whole thing.
        Who Cares? A Story of Adolescence
        8
        We are heathenish in our progress along the line of road making especially.
        Life in a Thousand Worlds
        9
        You're bound to think us positively heathenish hereabouts-isn't that so, James?
        Harvest Home
        10
        It was some heathenish 'land in error's chain,' as the missionary hymn says.
        Georgina of the Rainbows
        11
        I think it's so heathenish; but Roderick says he thinks it 's sublime.
        Roderick Hudson
        12
        These execrate him as the full-grown Golden Calf of heathenish worship.
        Celt and Saxon — Volume 2
        13
        All vestiges of the old heathenish life are gone, we believe for ever.
        By Canoe and Dog Train Among The Cree and Salteaux Indians
        14
        Oh, I don't mean the idolatrous, heathenish confession of the Catholics.
        The talisman
        15
        They are a rough, heathenish set of fellows, these Milton men of yours.
        North and South
        16
        This is the conceit of one wallowing in the slough of heathenish abominations!
        The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
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