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adjective
Heathenish  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens. "Worse than heathenish crimes."
2.
Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel.
3.
Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living.





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"Heathenish" Quotes from Famous Books



... we must be on our guard," said the Abbe Plomb, "since their interpretations are for the most part heathenish. Marbode, for example, though he was a Bishop, has left us but a very pagan interpretation of the ...
— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans
... not only distrusts fairies, but, like the Scotch Presbyterians, she fears that they are wicked. "Still, you say they haven't got immortal souls to save, and I don't suppose they're responsible for their actions," she allows; "but as for traipsing up to those heathenish, haunted woods when all Christian folks are in bed, I don't believe in it, and neither would Mr. Beresford; but if you're set on it, I ...
— Penelope's Irish Experiences • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... suppose ignorantly," said the man in black; "eating the bodies of the dead was a heathenish custom, practised by the heirs and legatees of people who left property; and this custom is alluded ...
— The Romany Rye • George Borrow
... College, and thence wherever they choose to send me. I confess that I have a preference for Africa; there are certain kings there"—he pronounced several crack-jaw names—"that I can not think wholly ill of. There must be some hope of conversion among them. I trust to wean them from that heathenish slave-trade. They may make use of their people at home in planting sugar-cane and cultivating rice. In a couple of years I will send you, by way of London, the first ...
— Debit and Credit - Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag • Gustav Freytag
... at these celebrations were members of other tribes whom they had enslaved. Not only are the teaching and influence of Mr. Duncan having the effect of making the Indians fall away from such inhuman and heathenish practices, but they are also removing much of the deadly hostility which formerly existed among different tribes. More Indians are gradually coming in from the country round about and making ...
— Metlakahtla and the North Pacific Mission • Eugene Stock


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