Heresy Synonyms and Antonyms

hĕrĭ-sē
Unorthodox opinion
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. hippiedom
Antonyms:
  1. orthodoxy
A belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. unorthodoxy
  2. blasphemy
  3. dissent
  4. nonconformity
  5. heterodoxy
  6. schism
  7. apostasy
  8. dissidence
  9. revisionism
  10. protestantism
  11. sectarianism
  12. defection
  13. doctrinal divergence
  14. agnosticism
  15. iconoclasm
  16. infidelity
  17. secularism
  18. opinion
  19. beatnikism
  20. fringiness

Words Related to Heresy

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Heresy Sentence Examples

  • Leo was disturbed throughout his pontificate by heresy and schism.

  • Three types of heresy have appeared in the history of the Christian Church.'

  • An investigation was begun in March 1559, and as the result of a conviction for heresy the exhumed body of Jorisz was burned, together with his portrait, on the 13th of May 1559.

  • Leo then formally excommunicated Luther by bull of the 3rd of January 1521; and in a brief directed the emperor to take energetic measures against heresy.

  • These amulets recognized the Messianic claims of Sabbatai Sebi, and a famous rabbinic contemporary of Eybeschiitz, Jacob Emden, boldly accused him of heresy.

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