Antonyms for Heathen
ˈhi ðənhea·then

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1. heathen, pagan, gentile, infideladjective

   a person who does not acknowledge your god

   Antonyms:
   religious

   Synonyms:
   infidel, goy, non-Jew, pagan, heathen, gentile, pleasure seeker, hedonist

2. heathen, heathenish, pagan, ethnicadjective

   not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam

   Antonyms:
   religious

   Synonyms:
   ethnical, cultural, heathenish, ethnic, heathen, pagan

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1. heathenadjective

   Synonyms:
   pagan, heathenish, paganic, gentile, paganish, irreligious, godless

2. heathennoun

   Synonyms:
   pagan, idolater

How to use Heathen in a sentence?

1. Harriet Beecher Stowe:

   Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.

2. Najmaddin Faraj Ahmad:

   Whoever offends our religion and our honor, must understand that this is a conflict about life and death, the cartoonist has become a fighting heathen whom it is permissible to kill.

3. Carl Jung:

   The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

4. Harriet Beecher Stowe:

   I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

5. George Eliot:

   It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

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