paynim🔊

(archaic) A pagan or heathen, especially a Muslim, or a Jew.

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(Though like a covered field, where champions bold / Wont ride in armed, and at the soldan's chair / Defied the best of paynim chivalry / To mortal combat, or career with lance).

John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667)

St Helen’s bell rang reminders that she lived, a paynim or Mahometan, in the church’s shadow.

Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun (1964)

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