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gentile

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1. gentile - Noun

2. gentile - Adjective

Meaning

One of a non-Jewish nation; one neither a Jew nor a Christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen.

Belonging to the nations at large, as distinguished from the Jews; ethnic; of pagan or heathen people.

Denoting a race or country; as, a gentile noun or adjective.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night. Woody Allen

If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you. Bernard Malamud

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all. Abba Eban

That Vulcan gave arrows unto Apollo and Diana the fourth day after their Nativities, according to Gentile Theology, may pass for no blind apprehension of the Creation of the Sun and Moon, in the work of the fourth day. Thomas Browne

The infidelity of the Gentile world, and that more especially of men of rank and learning in it, is resolved into a principle which, in my judgment, will account for the inefficacy of any argument, or any evidence whatever, viz. William Paley

The difference is that if we turn from the Gentile first, we will have the Almighty as the immediate staff and our comfort. If not, we will have neither the Gentile nor, for a terrible stage, the Almighty. Meir Kahane

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