(n.) An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater.
(n.) An irreligious person.
(a.) Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author.
(a.) Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish.
(a.) Irreligious; scoffing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The heroine of Jane Eyre is hypnotised by this cold and saintly missionary, who proposes that they marry and go to India together to convert heathens (and perish doing God's holy work).
(2) Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies.
(3) Ye satanic windmills are verily heathen science bequeathed by snollygosters that fail to honour the old ways and displeaseth the coal gods,” it said.
(4) No way should bishops or imams or rabbis have the power in parliament, unelected, to influence the way we heathens (or humanists) should live our lives.
(5) Study the expressions on the faces of Barack Obama or Ben Bernanke talking about "growth" as if it were a heathen god to be appeased by tipping another cauldron's worth of fictional money into the mouth of a volcano.
(6) I also don't say this as a heathen: good quality tea is essential to making the perfect cup.
(7) In 2011 he released the album Toy, which dated back to 2001 and comprised tracks from Heathen and their B sides plus versions of older material.
(8) There have been suggestions that both the looting and the government's failure to tackle it results from the rise of Islamists who are culturally opposed to Egypt's heathen heritage.
(9) a) Herbert Grönemeyer b) Peter Maffay c) Udo Jürgens (the "joke" is that it spells out a sentence "If Lattek wears Klinsi's shorts, Jürgen wears Udo's" (it's Udo Lattek and Jürgen Klinsmann) d) Patrick Lindner 300 Flower of the year in 2012 is a) Katholikenuschi (Catholic Uschi) b) Baddhistenbaerbel (Buddhist Baerbel) c) Protestantenwaltraud (Protestant Waltraud) d) Heidenelke (Heathen Elke) 500 If the idiot (Depp… so means Johnny Depp in this context) doesn't have his debit card on him, how does he pay?
(10) Sadly, he hasn't gone for Transformers Plasters, the heathen.
(11) A fortnight ago McConnell told his congregation at the Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle: "Islam is heathen.
(12) Heathen swingers destroying the notion of Britishness.
(13) Based on data of two Canadian Protestant missions in China before 1937, this study reveals that medical missionaries were generally ignorant of Chinese medicine, and they regarded Chinese medicine as part of an inferior, heathen culture.
(14) It reminds me a little of Everyone Says "Hi" from 2002's Heathen.
(15) The following year, he was artistic director of the Meltdown festival on the South Bank in London, opening the event by performing the first concert of his own Heathen tour, in support of his album of the same name.
(16) The unusual event has been celebrated for centuries and is thought to have its roots in a heathen festival to celebrate the return of spring.
(17) Improvements on the MBMs (No 479 in a series of 389,457): "Unthinkable as it may seem, I think I've found a better way to follow the tournament than with the MBMs," writes heathen Philip Hucknall.
(18) The arrival of his daughter, Alexandria, in 2000 opened a joyous new dimension, though he kept working, delivering 2002’s Heathen , a dreamy confection of old and new material, and 2003’s Reality , a crafted call to “face the music and dance”.
(19) We were called pagans and heathens and spawn of the devil," she says.
(20) Terrible omens preceded the raid, the chroniclers wrote, “whirlwinds, lightning, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the sky”, and then “the ravaging of wretched heathen people destroyed God’s church at Lindisfarne”.
Heretic
Definition:
(n.) One who holds to a heresy; one who believes some doctrine contrary to the established faith or prevailing religion.
(n.) One who having made a profession of Christian belief, deliberately and pertinaciously refuses to believe one or more of the articles of faith "determined by the authority of the universal church."
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that the problem of predicting the selection effect using statistical estimates of heretability is connected with the problem of investigation of population heterogeneity and integrating their genetical structure.
(2) The two reformists Mr Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have sought to portray themselves as the true heirs of the Islamic revolution's spiritual leader, the late Ayatollah Khomeini, but this tactic has since worn thin and Khomeini's successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stepped up his drive to paint Mousavi and Karroubi as western-run heretics.
(3) The IS group considers Shias to be heretics and is fighting Iranian-backed Shia militias in Iraq and Syria.
(4) It used to be it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier,” Cruz said.
(5) Benito Mussolini, the future Fascist leader of Italy, was one of Italy's most prominent socialists, publishing historical biographies under the pen name "Vero Eretico" or "true heretic".
(6) I had never heard a formerly so heretical view expressed in any Arab quarter so publicly.
(7) Then maybe you might even avoid being called by the Inquisition for an 'assessment' of whether you have the Devil's mark or a third nipple or any other sign that you are a heretical 'scrounger'.
(8) Yet it is ever more dissected by hacks and bloggers who pretend to be heretical but are just gossip merchants who never question the deep structures of governance and merely legitimate their own crepuscular existence.
(9) If I’m a heretic then I’m proud because the root of the word ‘heretic’ is ‘choice’.
(10) Obviously games mattered to the crowd, who cheered Jobs's announcement that 12 current games, including Tomb Raider III, StarCraft, Heretic 2, Age of Empires, Quake and Quest for Glory 5 would be out on the Mac within the next 120 days.
(11) The temperature is always a little higher with a heretic in the room.
(12) Moore shows that the production of false knowledge about the victims of persecution, such as heretics and Jews, as well as the destruction of their actual identities, was a crucial feature of Europe's "persecuting societies".
(13) While the crusaders litter the countryside with steaming piles of barbecued heretics, there's some modern Durr Vinci Code whiffle involving hooded business types and clandestine sacrifices conducted in the name of "ze inheritors of ze Grail".
(14) With felicitous timing, London's Royal Court theatre is staging Richard Bean's hilarious if chaotic play, Heretic, about a university department eager for a grant from a multinational company and ready to suppress academic rigour to do so.
(15) He found precursors of the witch-hunts in the persecution of early Christians by the Romans, in the Church's campaigns against 12th-century heretics, and in the destruction of the Knights Templars.
(16) Isis regards Shia Muslims as heretics, and refers to them derogatively as “rafideen” or “rejectionists”.
(17) The difficult position of the heretic as a challenger to an entrenched orthodoxy is described, particularly the attempt of heretics to assert their allegiance to the discourse itself while the orthodoxy attempts to portray them as traitors or apostates.
(18) Many of the dead and wounded, Murtaza said, were from the Shia sect of Islam, which extremist groups drawn from Pakistan's majority Sunni popular regard as heretics.
(19) The core problem was that the stranglehold that market logic secured over public life in this period made the most direct and obvious climate responses seem politically heretical.
(20) The Templar order risked becoming a refuge for heretics who denied Jesus was fully human and the Shroud offered evidence to the contrary.