pagan

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For this reason, the Church has denied that the pagan is an innocent creature, or that he can stand in the judgment before the Searcher of hearts.

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  1. noun One who is not a Christian, Muslim, or Jew, especially an adherent of a polytheistic religion in antiquity.
  2. noun A Neo-Pagan.
  3. noun Offensive One who has no religion.
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  1. Middle English, from Late Latin pāgānus, from Latin, country-dweller, civilian, from pāgus, country, rural district; see pag- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. In Middle English payen, paien, *pain, payn, paen (a word extant in the surname Pain, Paine, Payne), from Old French paen, paien, payen, French païen = Provencal pagan, paguan, paien = Spanish pagano = Portuguese pagão, pagã = Italian pagano, a pagan, heathen; from Late Latin paganus, a heathen, properly adjective, heathen, a later use of paganus, rustic, rural, as a noun a villager, countryman, peasant, rustic; also (opposed to military) civil, civic, as a noun a citizen; properly of or pertaining to the country or to a village, from pagus, a district, province, the country: see pagus. Cf. heathen, literally ‘of the heath’ or country. From Latin paganus comes also ult. English paynim, and from pagus, ult. English pais and peasant.
 

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