A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address
Someone who does not believe in one of the world’s main religions is a pagan. ‘Pagans’ is used insultingly on two occasions in Girl with Green Eyes, by Edna O’Brien.
Etymologically the word refers to someone who lived in a village as opposed to a town, a rustic, though that has never been the meaning in English.
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