Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a heathenish manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a heathenish manner.
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- adverb In the manner of
heathens .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Not that I would here insinuate that he was heathenishly inclined to believe in or to worship the goddess Nemesis: for, in fact, I am convinced he never heard of her name.
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All of them swallowed some of the blood heathenishly but spit out most.
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Not that I would here insinuate that he was heathenishly inclined to believe in or to worship the goddess Nemesis; for, in fact, I am convinced he never heard of her name.
XV. The Conclusion of the Foregoing Adventure. Book VII 1917
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In her elegance and self-possession indeed, she seemed to the girl a kind of goddess -- heathenishly divine, because of that mixture of unseemliness, but still divine.
Eleanor Humphry Ward 1885
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They traversed the country, demolished the altars of the false gods, circumcised the children, and persecuted the heathen and heathenishly disposed.
Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881
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First of all, Demetrius formally recognised him as prince of Judah; in consequence of this he removed to Jerusalem, and expelled the heathen and heathenishly disposed, who continued to maintain a footing only in Acra and Bethsur.
Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881
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But the Maccabees desired something more than the _status quo ante_; after having done their duty they were disinclined to retire in favour of Alcimus, whose sole claim lay in his descent from the old heathenishly-disposed high-priestly family.
Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881
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Night, 'and who swore most heathenishly at a cow he was driving.
Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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I would here insinuate that he was heathenishly inclined to believe in or to worship the goddess Nemesis; for, in fact, I am convinced he never heard of her name.
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Henry Fielding 1730
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Christian-like a manner: for heathenishly it is declared by Virgil of
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 Alexander Pope 1716
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