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Definition of Heathens
1. heathen [n] - See also: heathen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heathens
Literary usage of Heathens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... convert feven-and-thirty heathens to the knowledge of Chrift; but as you are an
... heathens ..."
2. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"4 Respecting the words and carriage of the heathens. When Abra- 4 ham was before
Abimelech, who was a king, he gave Abraham no un- 4 savoury expressions, ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Nor could there be any idea of a sacrifice among the genuine heathens, ...
Was it to be a future sacrifice among genuine heathens, such as the Old Mexicans ..."
4. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1892)
"»nd , heathens, heresy. Cnd.Theod. Thus we find him decreeing in 407, ' We will
per- tit. v. 4o. secute the Manicheans, Phrygians, ..."
5. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson (1857)
"And as Julian observed the care of burial as a great encouragement to the heathens
to turn Christians, so Gregory Nazianzen did observe the same to the ..."
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