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pagan

[pey-guhn] / ˈpeɪ gən /




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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

It was struck at a time when pagan beliefs were starting to give way to Christianity, and its design appears to straddle this time of change.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2025

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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