Heretic Definition

hĕrĭ-tĭk
heretics
noun
heretics
A person who professes a heresy; esp., a church member who holds beliefs opposed to church dogma.
Webster's New World

Someone who, in the opinion of others, believes contrary to the fundamental tenets of a religion he claims to belong to.

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adjective

Heretical.

Webster's New World
Heretical.
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Other Word Forms of Heretic

Noun

Singular:
heretic
Plural:
heretics

Origin of Heretic

  • Middle English heretik from Old French heretique from Late Latin haereticus from Greek hairetikos able to choose, factious from hairetos chosen from haireisthai to choose heresy

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English, from Old French eretique, from Medieval Latin haereticus, from Ancient Greek αἱρετικός (hairetikos, “able to choose, factious”)

    From Wiktionary

Heretic Sentence Examples

  • He was declared a heretic and burnt on the 6th of July 1415.

  • Only Pecock's books and not the heretic were burnt.

  • The so-called heretic meanwhile spent his time partly at Kozihradek, some 45 m.

  • He passed his time in feasts and pageants, while in a bull the pope denounced him as a criminal, a pagan and a heretic, until, terrified by a slight disturbance on the 15th of December, he abdicated and fled from Rome.

  • Because of it Berengar was condemned as a heretic without being heard, by a synod at Rome and another at Vercelli, both held in 1050.

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