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pagan
adjective as in (offensive) irreligious
Weak matches
noun as in (offensive) person who does not believe in an orthodox religion
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Example Sentences
Even after abolition, Lucumí continued — quietly, often in private homes — as police and officials criminalized anything perceived as “pagan.”
"It's got this fascinating iconography of a little figure with a long cross - explicitly Christian - over the valknut design, which has pagan roots."
“It goes back to pagan times when we’d get together for the harvest and feasting. Humans don’t really need much reason to get together and party, and this is our alternative to religion.”
Historians believe that Valentine's Day is rooted in the Roman love and fertility festival, Lupercalia, and was a move by Gelasius I to Christianise pagan traditions.
Oliver Stone needle-dropped it in “The Doors,” in a scene where Jim Morrison drinks blood in a pagan ritual.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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