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gentile

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Non-Jewish. 2 heathen, pagan. 3 tribal, national. 4 Of or pertaining to gens or gentes. n. 1 A non-Jewish person. 2 (context grammar English) A noun derived from a proper noun which denotes a belonging to or coming from a particular nation, country ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., "noble, kind, gracious" (mid-12c. as a surname); late 14c., "of noble rank or birth, belonging to the gentry," from Late Latin gentilis "foreign, heathen, pagan," from Latin gentilis "person belonging to the same family, fellow countryman," from ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gentile \Gen"tile\ (j[e^]n"t[imac]l), n. [L. gentilis belonging to the same clan, stock, race, people, or nation; in opposition to Roman , a foreigner; in opposition to Jew or Christian , a heathen: cf. F. gentil. See Gentle , a.] One neither a Jew nor ...

Usage examples of gentile.

When Abraham decided to bring Elizabeth home to meet his sickly mother, half expecting her disapproval, but hoping that by convincing her of his happiness she would understand his desire to marry a gentile, he went to see his father.

Gentile boy friend, Aircraftman Edward Somers, whose parents were old and close friends of Rachel herself.

Nor was there ever any thing of such detriment to antient history, as the supposing that the Gods of the Gentile world had been natives of the countries, where they were worshipped.

A knight of Assisi, perhaps one of those who had been in captivity with him at Perugia, was preparing to go to Apulia under orders from Count Gentile.

Constantinople, where Gentile Bellini painted the portrait of the Sultan and the Sultana his mother, now in the British Museum.

The legend goes on to tell that in the course of the presentation of the gift, an incident occurred which induced Gentile Bellini to quit the Ottoman Court with all haste.

Stephen said, is one who buys cheap and sells dear, jew or gentile, is he not?

For the Mormon pioneers the most important features of the topography were the natural barriers that Brigham Young felt would protect their nascent state of Deseret from the influence of belligerent, unholy gentiles.

I am confident that they gloried in their affinity to the apostle of the Gentiles.

Wherefore in the passage quoted we are to understand the prohibition to adore those images which the Gentiles made for the purpose of venerating their own gods, i.

He found he liked the wily Idumaean, doomed never to qualify as king because his mother was a gentile.

The Judaistic element was not first introduced into Gentile Christianity by the opponents of Paul, who indeed wrought in the national sense, and there is even nothing to lead to the hypothesis that the common Gentile Christian view of the Old Testament and of the law should be conceived as resulting from the efforts of Paul and his opponents, for the consequent effect here would either have been null, or a strengthening of the Jewish Christian thesis.

Exactly here is where Paul, the noble apostle to the Gentiles, broke with the Judaizing apostles, and taught a doctrine more fully developed in its historic sequence, but substantially in perfect unison with the free teachings and spirit of Jesus himself.

CAPITOLO LXXI LE TRE EROINE Tre donne di rara bellezza sopraintendevano alla cura dei feriti ed al nobile e gentile loro aspetto, noi riconosciamo le nostre eroine: Clelia, Giulia ed Irene.

Now Paul and his traveling companion, a Gentile physician named Lucanus, easily forgot the terrors of their voyage from Palestine, which had ended in shipwreck on the coast of Malta, winter there, and transfer to the ship that had brought them to Puteoli.