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pay·nim (pā′nim)

noun

  1. a pagan; heathen
  2. a non-Christian; esp., a Muslim
  3. the pagan world

Etymology: ME painim < OFr paienime, heathendom < LL(Ec) paganismus, paganism

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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