heresy
IPA: hˈɛrʌsi
noun
- (religion) a doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance with established religious beliefs
- (by extension) A controversial or unorthodox opinion held by a member of a group, as in politics, philosophy or science.
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Examples of "heresy" in Sentences
- Love the heretic, hate the heresy.
- Heresiology is the study of heresy.
- Heresy is the truest art of disbelief.
- Heresy stepped in to widen the breach.
- He defends the Catholicism against the heresy.
- The defeated dragon is a symbol of the destruction of heresy.
- The main object of the Inquisition was the eradication of heresy.
- In the East, gnosticism is a heresy specific to the ascetic traditions.
- Spinoza committed the heresy of advocating the abrogation of the Torah.
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