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Heretic and Heathen Definitions

Heretic

A person who holds controversial opinions, especially one who publicly dissents from the officially accepted dogma of the Roman Catholic Church.

Heathen

An adherent of a religion that does not worship the God of Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.

Heretic

Heretical.

Heathen

Such persons considered as a group.

Heretic

Someone who believes contrary to the fundamental tenets of a religion they claim to belong to.
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Heathen

Heathen An adherent of a Neopagan religion that seeks to revive the religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Germanic peoples.

Heretic

Someone who does not conform to generally accepted beliefs or practices

Heathen

One who is regarded as irreligious, uncivilized, or unenlightened.

Heretic

(archaic) Heretical; of or pertaining to heresy or heretics.

Heathen

Such persons considered as a group.
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Heretic

One who holds to a heresy; one who believes some doctrine contrary to the established faith or prevailing religion.
A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject.

Heathen

Not adhering to the Christian religion (though usually excluding the Jews); pagan.

Heretic

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."

Heathen

(by extension) Uncultured; uncivilized; savage, philistine.

Heretic

A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church

Heathen

Alternative case form of Heathen.

Heretic

A person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion)

Heathen

A person who does not follow a Christian religion; a pagan.

Heathen

(by extension) An uncultured or uncivilized person, philistine.

Heathen

Alternative case form of Heathen.

Heathen

An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater.

Heathen

An irreligious person.
If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted heathens.
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance.

Heathen

Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author.

Heathen

Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish.

Heathen

Irreligious; scoffing.

Heathen

A person who does not acknowledge your God

Heathen

Not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam

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