How To Use Heathenish In A Sentence
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Milton himself calls "the heathenish battology of multiplying words.
Milton
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I am trying to save the children of God from the heathenish ways of the Devil.
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A further description of Baker's performances was: ‘brazen-faced, heathenish dances… which, if permitted, are likely to provoke riots’ .
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Say that to-night as you look around on the grievous famine of the suppletory arts and stratagems of repentance and reformation in your heathenish bedroom.
Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)
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There are some that detest them as a kind of sacrilege and count it the height of impiety to speak so irreverently of such hidden things, rather to be adored than explicated; to dispute of them with such profane and heathenish niceties; to define them so arrogantly and pollute the majesty of divinity with such pithless and sordid terms and opinions.
In Praise of Folly
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After the sermon they formed a ring, and with coats off sang, clapped their hands, and stamped their feet in a most ridiculous and heathenish way.
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This first text, therefore, hath been by you abused, in that you have ungodlily strained it, but in vain, to make it warrant your heathenish preparations to faith.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
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For in their succorless empty-handedness, they, in the heathenish sharked waters, and by the beaches of unrecorded, javelin islands, battled with virgin wonders and terrors that Cooke with all his marines and muskets would not have willingly dared.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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But Joe chid me, an 'said' tweer a heathenish thing sticked theer by the Phoenicians, as comed for tin in Solomon's times.
Lying Prophets
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Confronted with such evidence, it would have been understandable if Europeans had looked at tobacco as so inextricably entwined with heathenish practice that they would want nothing to do with the plant.
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Tobacco's use in heathenish and healing rituals eventually would be replaced by its use in civilized medicine.
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Error, however, like disease, is not easily eradicated; but as men get better acquainted with God, those dark and heathenish conceptions regarding him entertained by Calvinists, such as the foredooming of children and men to endless misery, will give place to nobler thoughts of the Author of our being.
The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election
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For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew, were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me acquainted with, still I ascribed this — and rightly ascribed it — to the fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild Scandinavian vocation in which I had so abandonedly embarked.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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The ancientest Fathers must be next removed, as Clement of Alexandria, and that Eusebian book of evangelic preparation, transmitting our ears through a hoard of heathenish obscenities to receive the Gospel.
Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing: Paras 1-19
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He desired that he might go along with Christ (v. 18), perhaps for fear lest the evil spirit should again seize him; or, rather, that he might receive instruction from him, being unwilling to stay among those heathenish people that desired him to depart.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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I think that he had never been entirely reconciled to the heathenish invention which I called a sail, and that down in the bottom of his heart he believed that the paddlers would eventually overhaul us; but now he couldn't praise it enough.
Pellucidar
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I know of many systems of religion esteemed heathenish whose precepts fill the reader with shame, and provoke him to new endeavors, though it be to the performance of rites merely.
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Tappan, a heathenish idea persists that what they need more than hygienics and scientific discipline is some of that old-fashioned love -- love which rocks them when it is not good for them -- love which overfeeds them sometimes so that they yell with old-fashioned colic -- love which ventures a bacilli-laden kiss.
The Danger Mark
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Japanese chess, story-telling, and the samisen fill up the early part of the evening, but later, an agonising performance, which they call singing, begins, which sounds like the very essence of heathenishness, and consists mainly in a prolonged vibrating
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
