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What is the noun for gentiles?

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gentilism
  1. heathenism; paganism; the worship of false gods
  2. tribal feeling; devotion to one's gens
  3. Examples:
    1. “The state differs from gentilism in that it first divides its members by territories.”
      “The organs of gentilism changed from servants of the public will to independent organs of rule oppressing their own people.”
      “The practice was prohibited, as savouring of, or leading to, gentilism.”
gentile
  1. A non-Jewish person.
  2. (grammar) A noun derived from a proper noun which denotes something belonging to or coming from a particular city, nation, or country.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Perhaps the Priest and the Levite feared the man dead, or thought he was a gentile, and chose to follow the letter of the law so that they would not become unclean.”
gentilic
  1. A personal name derived from a place name.
  2. A demonym.
  3. Synonyms:
gentilisms
  1. plural of gentilism
gentilics
gentiles
  1. plural of gentile
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They are the outcome of an attempt to whitewash the Romans in order to make the new covenant faith more acceptable to gentiles.”
      “Objections to gentiles, in biblical and rabbinical literature, are essentially ethical, as opposed to racial.”
      “Still, I found myself agreeing with the older gentleman who saw the room as a sea of gentiles.”
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