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Paynim

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Archaic A non-Christian, especially a Muslim.

n. Archaic A pagan or heathen.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A pagan or heathen, especially a Muslim or Jew.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adjective-and-noun. See painim.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Paganism; heathenism; heathendom; heathen lands collectively.

n. A pagan; a heathen.

Pagan; heathen.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a heathen; a person who is not a Christian (especially a Muslim)

Word Usage

"Kenneth felt as if, in those wildernesses the waste and dry places in which the foul spirits were wont to wander when expelled the mortals whose forms they possessed, a bare-footed friar would have been a better associate than the gay but unbelieving paynim."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

gentile heathen pagan infidel

Variant

painim

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