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Definition of Painim
1. n. A pagan; an infidel; -- used also adjectively.
Definition of Painim
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of paynim) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Painim
1. paynim [n -S] - See also: paynim
Lexicographical Neighbors of Painim
Literary usage of Painim
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"Red as the rose, thence gushed grievously, '1'hat when the painim spy'd the
streaming flood, blood, Gave him great heart ..."
2. Affixes in Their Origin & Application: Exhibiting the Etymologic Structure by Samuel Stehman Haldeman (1865)
"... pilgrim is for peregrine, painim for pagan, and megrim for henri- crania.
For maxim see -im, a. -Im, n. pi. [Hebrew plural masculine, pronounced -eem. ..."
3. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"Champions bold, Шит. The cross hath been an ancient bearing, even before the
birth of our Saviour, among the painim • themselves. ..."
4. Thesaurus of English words and phrases, classified and arranged so as to by Peter Mark Roget (1858)
"A heretic, antichrist, pagan, heathen, painim (or ... Pagan, heathen, ethnic,
gentile, painim, pantheistic. ..."
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