He told me all about his early home, his conversion and success of his early ministry, how he and mother had left home, city church and loving friends to come out and preach the Gospel to the Indians, that they might be lifted out of their
heathenish practices and degradation.
And those who saw the interesting group, could not possibly have omitted to notice the vast difference in the appearance of those children, and those idle ones who are suffered to grow up uncultivated, unpolished, and
heathenish in our streets; and who, for the want of care and instruction, are daily plunging in scenes of sloth, idleness, dissipation and crime, until they pass from step to step over the tread mill, into the state prison, and at last up to the gallows.
So the temptation will be present to view the public enemy as immoral or as
heathenish or even as ugly.
Speght thus presents Swetnam's volume as the ranting of a blasphemous fool: "by this your hodge-podge of
heathenish Sentences, Similies, and Examples, you have set forth your selfe in your right colours, unto the view of the world" (8).
In an 1854 letter to the publisher James Thomas Fields, poet John Greenleaf Whittier mocked Walden as saying that "if a man is willing to sink himself into a woodchuck, he can live as cheaply as that quadruped." Whittier allowed that the book "is capital reading but very wicked and
heathenish."
All of which sounded to Arlin's third wicked stepmother like unto
heathenish polytheism but which the Mermaid Princess assured her was Catholicism, the One True Faith.
See also Dep't OF THE INTERIOR, OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, RULES GOVERNING THE COURT OF INDIAN Affairs (1883) (making it unlawful for Indians to engage in traditional dances, feasts, polygamy, funeral practices, to become intoxicated, or to practice "
heathenish rites and customs" such as "medicine men" or other Indian religious practices).
Anees said the basic purpose of Prophethood is to make Arabs and world at large familiar with the universal message and principles of Islam; not to create hegemony of Arabs' customs and ethnicity over the world."The moral revolution which Prophet PBUH brought, still stressed Muslims to get themselves free from the blind slavery,
heathenish traditions and prosaic customs of the west".
their beliefs amounted to nothing more than
heathenish superstition" (Bisnauth 82).
Scholars have focused most on Eastlake's scathing comments on Jane Eyre as a book written by an author who "combines a total ignorance of the habits of society, a great coarseness of taste, and a
heathenish doctrine of religion" (94).
The religious "shout," a remnant of the former slaves' West African roots, was "a savage,
heathenish dance," consisting of "clapping and gesticulating" with an occasional bending of the knees "in a kind of ecstasy." The stamping and clapping got faster and furious, the floor shook dangerously.
Despite this intuition was related somehow to the formal
heathenish religion of the empire, at first it was neglected condoned.
Examples are folcisc popular, haedenisc
heathenish, peodisc national, inlendisc inlandish, utlendisc outlandish (which come close to the gentile group in 1); also mennisc human, cildisc childish, cierlisc churlish.
