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PAYNIM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does paynim mean?
• PAYNIM (noun)
The noun PAYNIM has 1 sense:
1. a heathen; a person who is not a Christian (especially a Muslim)
Familiarity information: PAYNIM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A heathen; a person who is not a Christian (especially a Muslim)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("paynim" is a kind of...):
gentile; heathen; infidel; pagan (a person who does not acknowledge your god)
Domain category:
Islam; Islamism; Mohammedanism; Muhammadanism; Muslimism (the monotheistic religious system of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran)
Context examples
“It is shame and sin to see two Christian Englishmen turn swords against each other like the frenzied bloodthirsty paynim.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“He is in hiding somewhere, for he knew well, black paynim as he is, that our horses' four legs could outstrip his two.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I swear by these finger-bones that I would not hurt a hair of your pretty heads; but I have been among the black paynim, and, by my hilt! it does me good to look at your English cheeks.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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