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paganish

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noun

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Adjective
  • This attempt to turn back the clock included the purging of Christian texts from schools, the conversion of Christian churches into pagan temples, and religious persecution as it had been practiced in centuries past.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Over time, my conquistadors retired, and my pagan temples got demolished to make way for grocery stores.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Shortly after hearing the stories of brave and faithful LGBTQ Catholics in Uganda, Pope Francis smartly and compassionately used his voice to warn against the unjust and godless laws.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Compared with the heavenly bliss promised at the end of Revelation, Byron’s godless planet was bleak stuff indeed.
    Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The rapture once preached and beckoned in churches has been repackaged for secular times: In place of souls ascending to heaven, there are minds preserved digitally—or even bodies kept alive—for eternity.
    John Kaag, The Atlantic, 28 May 2025
  • The Supreme Court has held that states may require their public schools be secular.
    Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 25 May 2025
Adjective
  • Silverstein had a much different experience growing up, given the fact that his parents were both Baalei teshuva (irreligious Jews who become more observant later in life).
    Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Finishing off the top 5 is religious flick The Forge with an irreligious weekend take-home of $6.6.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • The documents in which these doctrines were proclaimed stressed that the bishops of the church had been consulted and that the faith of the lay people was being affirmed.
    Dennis Doyle, The Conversation, 8 May 2025
  • There is an undeniable appeal of AI in the complicated U.S. tax space that often overwhelms even tax professionals, let alone the lay person.
    Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
Adjective
  • Though the papal tiara, symbolizing spiritual, temporal and supreme power, is still revered, no pope has worn it since Paul VI (1963-1978), who sold his for charity.
    NBC News, NBC news, 18 May 2025
  • Those questions are, so often, temporal and corporeal.
    Editorial, Boston Herald, 10 May 2025
Adjective
  • From a nonreligious perspective, the sense of reverent occasion is palpable, rippling out from Rome.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 7 May 2025
  • Researchers asked more than 2,000 people from various religious and nonreligious backgrounds to write about their experiences with karma — the belief that good deeds are rewarded, and bad actions are punished — and a common through-line of their responses emerged.
    Kameryn Griesser, CNN Money, 1 May 2025
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“Paganish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paganish. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.

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