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  • adjective of or relating to or being the time before the beginning of the Christian era

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Examples

  • Any pre-christian names and lore may have been lost after conversion.

    Old English gods and myths: the worlds Carla 2010

  • Impress your friends by coming out of the closet about your pre-christian faith.

    Horoscope for the week of December 18, 2007 2007

  • Here is a nice piece that is both anti-christian and celebrates a pre-christian culture (*).

    Archive 2007-08-01 2007

  • And all in turn flavored with a heavy dose of the romance and orthodoxy of early Spanish Medeival Roman Catholicism mixed with a tough, durable, viral strain of Manichaenism, plus just a dash or two of gnosticism and varying echoes of pre-christian Native American beliefs.

    After All, This Is Mexico 2006

  • And all in turn flavored with a heavy dose of the romance and orthodoxy of early Spanish Medeival Roman Catholicism mixed with a tough, durable, viral strain of Manichaenism, plus just a dash or two of gnosticism and varying echoes of pre-christian Native American beliefs.

    After All, This Is Mexico 2006

  • Gender is very, very important to our culture right back to pre-christian times.

    17BHDD, 5ARD, and CAIS Summarised Zoe Brain 2008

  • If you look further you will find quotes in which he praises pre-christian Germans, like the ones in Wagner's Ring, for living life more authentically and essentially German than after everything got spoiled by the infusion of "Jewish morality."

    A Bit of GOOD News ... Steve Hulett 2008

  • And how most of what the western world does for that holiday traces from those early pre-christian traditions, rather than anything in the bible.

    Just when I thought the holidays were perfect, Crazy Mother bites me in the ass. Angry Professor 2007

  • In pre-christian times, the female and female genital organs were worshiped.

    New Hampshire Court Refuses To Order Co-Use of Presbyterian Church By Factions Howard M. Friedman 2007

  • So why not insist that if credence is to be given to Creation theory then, recognising that different religions have different versions of the Creation myth, why not teach the local pre-christian in the USA, Native American; in the UK, Celtic; in Australia, Aboriginal, &c. creation myth alongside the judaeo-christian creation myth, so that our children have a better chance to make up their minds?

    Ohio: They're baaaack (again) - The Panda's Thumb 2006

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