gentile
/ˈd͡ʒɛntaɪl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Non-Mormon.
adj
Of or pertaining to a gens or several gentes.
adj
Of a part of speech such as an adjective, noun or verb: relating to a particular city, nation or country.
noun
A non-Jewish person.
noun
A non-Mormon person.
Example Sentences
- "This ſhall bring down the Judgment upon Rome, preſently after the Appearance of Antichriſt: and as upon Rome, ſo alſo upon all the Gentile Chriſtians, who have a Name to live but are dead, being fallen away from their Firſt Love and Faith, and ſo having made themſelves Veſſels fit for Deſtruction, when this ſore Judgment ſhall go forth."
- "If we read the Epistles of St. Paul, we shall soon discover what efforts the Jewish converts made to bring the Gentile converts into the observance of every Jewish custom compatible with christianity:^([sic]) and as we do not discover in those Epistles any traces of a dispute on this head between the Jewish and Gentile converts, we may fairly conclude that the Gentile converts adopted without hesitation the time-honoured manner of praising the true God made use of by the Jewish converts, instead of the Pagan mode of singing, which was then associated in their minds with every thing unclean and abominable."
- "Down in the workshop all the elves were makin' toys For the good gentile girls and the good gentile boys"
- "There is further evidence of the fact that both Romans and the Herodians distinguished Jewish from Gentile areas and treated them differently. Herod did not produce pagan coins, bearing an image of Augustus or himself, but rather good Jewish coins. It is noteworthy that he built numerous pagan buildings, including temples honouring Augustus and an amphitheater for Greek games, and he donated gymnasia to territories that he did not govern: […] But (and this is a very big "but") he put none of these Gentile/pagan buildings in the Jewish parts of his domain."
- "[John] Bale, following Annius [Annio da Viterbo], argued that druids, bards and other ‘gentile’ (pagan) priests had preserved from Noah’s time the memory of a true religion that believed ‘that there is one God, immortal and incomprehensible’ (‘unum esse Deum immortalem, et incomprehensibilem ...’)."
- "The Justice or injustice of such a principle in law, I leave for them who made it, the United States; Suffice it say the law was just as good for a the Saints as for the Gentiles, [...]"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
gentiledom
gentilic
gentilical
gentilically
gentilise
gentilish
gentilization
gentilize
nongentile
antigentile
Phrases
non-gentile
Sabbath Gentile