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pagan

[pey-guhn] / ˈpeɪ gən /




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Modern directors and adapters are wary of the civic and cosmic levels, perhaps out of fear that pagan prophets and citizen choruses will seem artificial or dated.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

Monsanto—about a 186-mile drive northeast of Lisbon—is Portugal at its most primal and pagan, yet with postcards and cordial citizenry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Judith Mair, a visiting professor at Edinburgh Napier University says the festival of Hogmanay in Scotland goes back to pagan times.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

“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.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2025

This account presented Muslim and Christian philosophers with a problem which had not worried their pagan predecessors: how did it come about that the four elements did not form perfect concentric circles?

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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