Devout vs Heathen - What's the difference?
devout | heathen |
Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religious.
* Bible, Acts x. 2
* Rogers
(archaic) Expressing devotion or piety.
Warmly devoted; hearty; sincere; earnest.
(obsolete) A devotee.
(obsolete) A devotional composition, or part of a composition; devotion.
Not adhering to an Abrahamic religion; pagan.
(by extension) Uncultured; uncivilized; savage, philistine.
(pertaining or adhering to the Germanic neo-pagan faith Heathenry).
A person who does not follow an Abrahamic religion; a pagan.
* V. Knox
(by extension) An uncultured or uncivilized person, philistine.
(an adherent of the Germanic neo-pagan faith of Heathenry).
As adjectives the difference between devout and heathen
is that devout is devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religious while heathen is pertaining or adhering to the germanic neo-pagan faith heathenry.As nouns the difference between devout and heathen
is that devout is (obsolete) a devotee while heathen is an adherent of the germanic neo-pagan faith of heathenry.devout
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- a devout man, and one that feared God
- We must be constant and devout in the worship of God.
- devout''' sighs; '''devout''' eyes; a '''devout posture
- devout wishes for one's welfare
Noun
(s)References
*heathen
English
Adjective
(-)Noun
(s)- If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted heathens .