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US
/ˈhɛɹətɪk/
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[ UK /hˈɛɹətˌɪk/ ]
[ UK /hˈɛɹətˌɪk/ ]
NOUN
- a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church
- a person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion)
How To Use heretic In A Sentence
- We may earnestly believe that they're wrong - whether they're non-Christians, heretics, apostates, agnostics, atheists, or what have you.
- What we should not do is suppress dissent, close off argument and condemn those who question the standard line as heretics.
- Moreover it seems to me atrocious that we who insist on seven millions of Catholics supporting a church they call heretical, should dare to talk of our scruples (conscientious scruples forsooth!) about assisting with a poor pittance of very insufficient charity their 'damnable idolatry.' The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- I made the then heretical suggestion that it might be cheaper to design new machines.
- Peckinpah was a heretical filmmaker.
- Hanuman loved playing the heretic as he loved playing chess. THE BROKEN GOD
- As early as 1532, in a famous memorial meant for Clement VII, he called for the repression of the friars, priests, preachers, confessors, and books he saw as responsible for the spread of heretical ideas among the Italian populace.
- It is time to leave stoning as a form of capi tal punishment behind us as a race, to relegate it to the same place we have put stringing heretics on racks -- in a chapter of our past that we are not proud of. José Ramos-Horta: An Appeal for Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani
- He had an extensive collection of heretical materials, and was housing a subversive.
- These beliefs existed within the interstices of official faith and ritual and churchmen did not necessarily see them as pagan, unchristian, heretical or erroneous.