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Healthen vs Heathen - What's the difference?

healthen | heathen |

As a verb healthen

is to make whole or healthy; strengthen.

As an adjective heathen is

not adhering to an Abrahamic religion; pagan.

As a noun heathen is

a person who does not follow an Abrahamic religion; a pagan.

healthen

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • to make whole or healthy; strengthen

    • heathen

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not adhering to an Abrahamic religion; pagan.
  • (by extension) Uncultured; uncivilized; savage, philistine.
  • (pertaining or adhering to the Germanic neo-pagan faith Heathenry).

    • Noun

    (s)
  • A person who does not follow an Abrahamic religion; a pagan.
  • * V. Knox
    • If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted heathens .
  • (by extension) An uncultured or uncivilized person, philistine.
  • (an adherent of the Germanic neo-pagan faith of Heathenry).

    • Coordinate terms

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    Derived terms

    * heathendom * heathenish * heathenism * heathenize * heathenness