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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—H

Heathen

A dweller on a heath or common. Christian doctrines would not reach these remote people till long after they had been accepted in towns, and even villages. (Anglo-Saxon, hæthen, hæth. (See Pagan.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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