paganism

Example Sentences

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Imagination is whimsical enough to paint for me the character of the room itself, as having an arcade of arches running down one side alone, of the fantastic and paganised Gothic of the Renaissance.

From The Lost Stradivarius by Falkner, John Meade

Science," says Dr. Inge, "has been the slowly advancing Nemesis which has overtaken a barbarised and paganised Christianity.

From Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality by Begbie, Harold

When only monk and cardinal deacon, he had obtained the permission of Pope Pelagius to set out in person as missionary to paganised Britain.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)

The religion of these ages was wild as their morality; few heroes but bore some relationship to Woden; and even in their rude paganised Christianity, some mythological name cast its lustre in their genealogies.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

But beyond all these things there is the general fact that before any literature becomes pagan the land must first have been paganised.

From Among Famous Books by Kelman, John