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Meanings of heathenish in English
Not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam.
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Examples for "ethnic"
Examples for "ethnic"
1
Information about, and government policies and efforts regarding, religious and ethnic minorities.
2
However, the spouses-to-be come from completely different religious, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
3
Objective: Diabetes distress among patients from ethnic minorities is still poorly understood.
4
The crisis has alarmed a region with a history of ethnic conflict.
5
But ethnic and separatist violence, as well as state repression, have resumed.
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Such was the general vitality of the heathen creed in its strength.
2
See then that I am laid in the grave like a heathen.
3
This shows how the heathen in his blindness neglects his natural advantages.
4
It was the profane heathen, of whom Israel learned to worship idols.
5
His righteousness hath he openly shown in the sight of the heathen.
1
As we shall see, Christian safeguards against vampires far outweigh the pagan.
2
By it the Humanists of the fifteenth century scattered broadcast pagan ideas.
3
In it occurs the strange pagan-flavoured story of the British Monk Constantine.
4
The squire swears like a pagan; the tutor recites verses from Horace.
5
The leaven of a true Christianity was working in the half-pagan populations.
Usage of heathenish in English
1
The heathenish selfishness of business competition started me away from the world.
2
He had never seen anything at once so heathenish and so exquisite.
3
He had a heathenish amount of machine-guns and he used them beautifully.
4
You're coming to make me feel confoundedly uncomfortable in my heathenish life.
5
Don't go to being fools by giving a child a heathenish name.
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How utterly heathenish is our oblivion of God in our daily life!
7
There was something both heathenish and pathetic in the whole thing.
8
We are heathenish in our progress along the line of road making especially.
9
You're bound to think us positively heathenish hereabouts-isn't that so, James?
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It was some heathenish 'land in error's chain,' as the missionary hymn says.
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I think it's so heathenish; but Roderick says he thinks it 's sublime.
12
These execrate him as the full-grown Golden Calf of heathenish worship.
13
All vestiges of the old heathenish life are gone, we believe for ever.
14
Oh, I don't mean the idolatrous, heathenish confession of the Catholics.
15
They are a rough, heathenish set of fellows, these Milton men of yours.
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This is the conceit of one wallowing in the slough of heathenish abominations!
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