half-heathen

They dress comparatively well, and they spend considerable sums in their half-heathen lembamentos

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

I cannot go into the church with them and worship God as a human being should, for this is no Christian life we lead down here, but a delusive half-heathen one.

Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian Various

West, the half-heathen Negro so recently in the cruel degradation of slavery, those of our own race in the bonds of ignorance and immorality -- so that they shall have and manifest an intelligent and worthy manhood and womanhood.

The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 11, November, 1889 Various

A half-Arian, half-heathen horde, wherever they passed all the horrors of wanton destruction and cruelty marked their track.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

Mesopotamia were not similarly favoured is to be explained not merely by the much longer time elapsed since their political extinction -- a lapse which had permitted them to become rooted to the land of their exile -- but principally to the absence of any desire on their part to set up the old symbolic, half-heathen sanctuaries of Jehovah.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

But an obstacle was encountered in the jealousy of the Samaritans, the half-heathen neighbours on the north.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

At the time of the fall of the old Empire of the West, and of the rise of new half-heathen States, he sketched the noble conception of a future history of the Church.

Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and The Confessions of St. Augustine 1851-1930 1911

He fell finally with that other half-heathen power in the North, with which he had made an alliance against the remains of Roman and Byzantine culture.

The New Jerusalem 1905

They sat there for a long time, not speaking, each busy in his own way: the boy full of imaginings, strange, half-heathen, half-angelic feelings; the man roaming in that savage, romantic, superstitious atmosphere which belongs to the north, and to the north alone.

Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People", v2 Gilbert Parker 1897

It was the mutual recognition of these equivalents that led the two men to mutual trust, only occasionally disturbed, as has been shown; though one was regarded as the most fastidious man of his set in London, the fairest-minded of friends, the most comfortable of companions; while the other was an outlaw, a half-heathen, a lover of but one thing in this world, the joyous god of Chance.

Pierre and His People, [Tales of the Far North], Volume 3. Gilbert Parker 1897