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- noun Plural form of
heathen .
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Examples
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“Well Sir … Vater,” he corrected, “how will we know the heathens from the chosen?”
365 tomorrows » Roi R. Czechvala : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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“Well Sir … Vater,” he corrected, “how will we know the heathens from the chosen?”
365 tomorrows » 2010 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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I was always sure that the flood of gambling casinos down south were always run by heathens from the north and now I discover that the GOP is on the take from them.
06/08/2005 2005
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Both which phrases the book of the gospel owns: "The land of Israel," Matthew 2: 20: and it calls the heathens, "those that are without," 1 Corinthians 5: 13; 1
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Races whose religious beliefs are unlike the accepted beliefs of our race we call heathens; those whose habits of living fall below the ideals of our own race we call uncivilized.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp
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Many of the tribes in Africa are, you must remember, without any form of religion whatever, being even worse than what we call heathens, who worship some sort of a God. "
The Rover Boys in the Jungle Or, Stirring Adventures in Africa Edward Stratemeyer 1896
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The alternate future history story portrays native Americans (Aztecs) in a light that I as a native American do not agree with and I further believe the concept of Aztecs as completely head-over-hearts blood thirsty heathens is a product Spanish/European propaganda and persecution (supported by the book burning of many artifacts that probably contained the historical perspectives of the Aztecs, Mayas and other natives.
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“I thought that was mainly monks or priests or something—setting up missions and converting the so-called heathens.”
Thieves Like Us Starr Ambrose 2010
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In the popular press, we were described as heathens and barbarians.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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Page 93 conduct has brought upon it, & if you have one spark of human sensibility, or even the least shade of humanity, if you are what you profess to be, a christian; repent and let us, whom you call heathens, return to our once happy shores, thereby, if you cannot obliterate, heal as much as possible the wounds you have made. "
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