Heretic
['herɪtɪk] or ['hɛrətɪk]
Definition
(noun.) a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church.
(noun.) a person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion).
Checked by Carmen--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who holds to a heresy; one who believes some doctrine contrary to the established faith or prevailing religion.
(n.) One who having made a profession of Christian belief, deliberately and pertinaciously refuses to believe one or more of the articles of faith "determined by the authority of the universal church."
Typist: Nicholas
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Sectary, schismatic, nonconformist, dissenter, separatist.
Checker: Natalia
Examples
- Her father might be a heretic; but had not she, in her despairing doubts not five minutes before, shown herself a far more utter sceptic? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It was this that brought him before the Inquisition and that branded him as a dangerous heretic, and it was this that placed him in the forefront of the world’s discoverers. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- And first among themselves, Mr. Blindman, the foreman, said, I see clearly that this man is a heretic. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My pupil, said Père Silas, if he remains in Europe, runs risk of apostacy, for he has become entangled with a heretic. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- No, frankly, I don't think them a great object in life, said Dorothea I fear you are a heretic about art generally. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Fraternal communion with a heretic! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He had a passion for the argumentative conversion of heretics, and he was commissioned by Pope Innocent III to go and preach to the Albigenses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- East of the Caliph, in Persia, and west of him in Palestine, Syria, and Egypt, were Shiite heretics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was hunting everywhere for heretics as timid old ladies are said to look under beds and in cupboards for burglars before retiring for the night. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Before the thirteenth century the penalty of death had been inflicted but rarely upon heretics and unbelievers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The clergy were to be freed from lay jurisdiction and from taxation, and exemplary cruelties were to be practised upon the heretics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The last discourse of St. Dominic to the heretics he had sought to convert is preserved to us. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Obstinate heretics used to be brought thither convenient for burning hard by. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We were blasphemers--lying heretics. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
Editor: Noreen