pagan
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Yet well into the 20th century, both pagan and Christian Celtic abstraction was considered to be merely decorative and inferior to classical representation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
Perhaps his Ye Olde Tinder profile read: “Aspiring playwright seeks older woman, pagan preferred.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025
Catholic Normans, returning from the Crusades, have been granted the land and titles previously held by the pagan Saxons.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
Contrary to popular myth, the designation of Dec. 25 was not just a lazy attempt to steal pagan fun from the Romans.
From Salon • Dec. 23, 2024
It moved into Latin and Middle English as jlamen, a pagan word for priest, and into Sanskrit as brahma, then “brahman.”
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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