Heresy

Noun

 * 1)  A doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance with established religious beliefs, especially dissension from Roman Catholic dogma.
 * 2) * 1968 History of Western Civilization edited Heyes Baldwin & Cole. p.47. Macmillan. Library of Congress 67-13596.
 * "Heresy meant deliberate departure from the accepted doctrines of the church. It was intellectual and spiritual dissent and concerned the beliefs of Christianity, not the morals of its adherents."
 * 1) A controversial or unorthodox opinion held by a member of a group, as in politics, philosophy or science.

Related terms

 * heresiarch
 * heretic
 * heretical

Adjectives for Heresy
literary; passing; downright.

Verbs for Heresy
abhor—; accuse of—; confess—; create—; curb—; dare—; defeat—; denounce—; destroy—; excommunicate for—; incur—; in¬terpret as—; protest—; renounce—; revenge —; ridicule—; scan—; shake off—; work—; —denies; —enrages; —mocks; —offends; —scoffs; —taints; —tolerates.

Thesaurus
Albigensianism, Arianism, Bohemianism, Catharism, Ebionitism, Erastianism, Gnosticism, Jovinianism, Lollardy, Manichaeanism, Manichaeism, Monophysism, Monophysitism, Pelagianism, Waldensianism, Wyclifism, aberrancy, aberration, agnosticism, ambiguity, ambivalence, antinomianism, antinomy, apostasy, asymmetry, atheism, beatnikism, defection, defectiveness, delusion, denial, deviancy, disbelief, discredit, disproportion, disproportionateness, dissent, dissidence, distortion, emanatism, equivocality, errancy, erroneousness, error, fallaciousness, fallacy, false doctrine, falseness, falsity, fault, faultiness, flaw, flawedness, fringiness, hamartia, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, hippiedom, hylotheism, illusion, impiety, inability to believe, incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, incredulity, infidelity, irreconcilability, minimifidianism, misapplication, misbelief, misconstruction, misdoing, misfeasance, misinterpretation, misjudgment, nonbelief, nonconformability, nonconformism, nonconformity, nullifidianism, originality, oxymoron, pantheism, paradox, peccancy, perversion, rejection, revisionism, schism, self-contradiction, sin, sinfulness, unbelief, unbelievingness, unconformability, unconformity, unconventionality, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, wrong, wrongness

Alternative forms

 * hæresy

Etymology
From heresie: (modern hérésie), from  haeresis:, from  αἵρεσις:, from αἱρέομαι:, the middle voice of αἱρέω:.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: kettery, dwaalleer, dwaallere
 * Armenian: հերետիկոսություն
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: dwaalleer, ketterij
 * Esperanto: herezo
 * Finnish:, vääräoppisuus, vääräuskoisuus,
 * French:
 * German:, Ketzerei


 * Greek: αίρεση
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 邪教, 邪宗
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: herejía
 * Volapük:


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 * French:


 * Greek: αίρεση
 * Japanese: 異端
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: