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Definition of "heathenish" []

  • Of or having to do with heathens. (adjective)
  • Uncouth; barbarous. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "heathenish" in a sentence
  • "Sabbath, they inserted a clause for the taking down of maypoles, which they called a heathenish vanity."
  • "Look back at the passage on the first page of this chapter: the Old Testament church both created and borrowed Gehenna, its idea of a hell, from its surrounding countries and so-called heathenish cultures."
  • "Every - thing which recalled a heathenish idol-cult was re - jected, and the meaning of imago was limited mainly to painted images, which being flat and therefore not similar materially to what they represented, suggested only the shape of divine figures."