Adjective : heathenish practices of idolatry. From Dictionary.com.
Sabbath, they inserted a clause for the taking down of maypoles, which they called a heathenish vanity. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell] Reference
The writer calls booing a "silly custom" that is "heathenish," and then makes a plea. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
The heathenish treasure; he'll be nowise the better. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem] Reference
'heathenish! quite heathenish!' added the lazy gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
"I wish he'd never gone down to that heathenish country.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
It is heathenish "truck," by whose sale they make a profit. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
Philip assisted at the heathenish solemnity of the thousandth year of. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
We are heathenish in our progress along the line of road making especially. From Wordnik.com. [Life in a Thousand Worlds] Reference
With a few rare exceptions, it was a realm of almost heathenish darkness and vice. From Wordnik.com. [Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick] Reference
We are kept in heathenish darkness, by laws especially enacted to make our instruction. From Wordnik.com. [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference
"But now, that I recollect, methinks that when they deceived me it sounded a little heathenish.". From Wordnik.com. [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference
Our laws covering this field are heathenish compared with the statutes of this far distant world. From Wordnik.com. [Life in a Thousand Worlds] Reference
How can civil government be perpetuated, or even exist, in the midst of such heathenish idolatry?. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880] Reference
After his death, heresies and heathenish superstitions had entirely extinguished the light of the gospel. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Her pupils could not pronounce it, the servants blundered over it, and Mrs. Jessop declared it "heathenish.". From Wordnik.com. [A Bachelor's Dream] Reference
Communion-Sacrament to those who persist in retaining that heathenish emblem derived from ancient mythology. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
They are well built and supplied with many conveniences that will serve to make student life less heathenish. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
We find in the Egyptian temples paintings of priests dressed in these gowns: proof that they are antiquely heathenish. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
We think on the Saviour; we love him, and will give up our hearts to him, and renounce all our old heathenish customs. From Wordnik.com. [The Moravians in Labrador] Reference
All authorities agree that we find no rude or heathenish time in the far off history of Egypt out of which civilization was evolved. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880] Reference
I do not expect he will please you much, as he treats of little but charioteering, boxing, running, and some old heathenish stories. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
At the other extreme are the heathenish manners of Skarphedinn, who, in the scene at the Althing, uses all the bad language of the old. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Then two couples were severally married, not both at once after Mr. Phillips 'heathenish fashion, pronouncing them all husbands and wives!. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
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