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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
belief
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Even after a thousand years or more, evidence of pagan beliefs is still widespread in churches.
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This ritual suggests the pagan belief in the baptism by blood rather than water as being more binding.
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They still clung to many of their old pagan beliefs and practices.
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It is a testimony to the fundamental nature of pagan beliefs and practices that they have survived centuries of persecution.
god
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The rest are more like the pagan gods - supermen and super women.
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Maurice and his legion, Gereon and his soldiers reftised to worship pagan gods before battle.
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Note the little half-moon windows and the niches with their statues of pagan gods .
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Justin was martyred along with five other men and a woman for reftising to worship pagan gods .
myth
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When missionaries first reached Santa's native Lapland, they found a thriving pagan myth of reindeer flight.
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Rape is a staple in pagan myth , and killing still more commonplace.
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Stone monuments from tenth and eleventh century Northumbria sometimes contain scenes from pagan myth and legend.
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Even in translation, strange to say, pagan myth is little-read today.
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This, together with the re-emergence of pagan myth in general, fostered the full sunshine of the High Renaissance.
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Namely, the inevitable decline of pagan myth .
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Ovid the Augustan outcast opened up a silvery perspective of pagan myth for succeeding generations to enjoy.
religion
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They generally symbolize pagan religion and particularly the presence of a goddess and priestesses.
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They eventually succeeded in reversing the roles of the pagan religions and their own by taking the offensive.
site
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There are also churches built on pagan sites which have standing stones in the churchyard.
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And I read that many cathedrals were built on ancient pagan sites , which in turn were built over underground streams.
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Some were no doubt replacements for periodic meetings at pagan sites or in cemeteries with crosses.
temple
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The first church here is believed to have been built in the fifth-century on the site of a pagan temple to Apollo.
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From 326 onwards pagan temples began to suffer the gradual loss of old endowments.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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pagan Germanic tribes
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ancient pagan beliefs and rituals
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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From 326 onwards pagan temples began to suffer the gradual loss of old endowments.
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He found himself before the emperor a second time, after torching a pagan idol; his punishment was a severe flogging.
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Justin was martyred along with five other men and a woman for reftising to worship pagan gods.
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Not only in its primitive and pagan aspects, but also in sacred and scientific form.
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The spruce branch fell to the floor and the ivy wound itself around her neck like some pagan wreath.
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This ritual suggests the pagan belief in the baptism by blood rather than water as being more binding.
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We could do the sort of like, I was just thinking, weird pagan things.
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Within a generation or two aristocratic Christians were pursuing the same interests as their pagan ancestors.
II. noun
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According to legend, Eurosia was a maiden of noble birth, who was promised to a pagan .
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But he could also be dismayed if Christians were heard by pagans to be talking nonsense about nature.
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He also learned that Christians could be as evil as pagans.
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It was a standard sequence of conquest, and not confined to pagans.
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Like converted pagans, they were reluctant to give up their old gods.
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They are so virtuous that one can hardly call them pagans at all.
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Virtuous pagans, however, were quite another matter.