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Heretic synonyms

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schismatic
A person who causes or participates in schism
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  1. A person who causes or participates in schism
  2. One who promotes or engages in schism.
apostate
A person guilty of apostasy
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  1. A person guilty of apostasy
  2. One who has abandoned one's religious faith, a political party, one's principles, or a cause.
sectarian
(Obs.) An apostate from an established church
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  1. (Obs.) An apostate from an established church
  2. One characterized by bigoted adherence to a factional viewpoint.
  3. A member of any religious sect
dissenter
One who dissents:
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  1. One who dissents:
  2. One who refuses to accept the doctrines or usages of an established or a national church, especially a Protestant who dissents from the Church of England.
  3. A British Protestant who does not belong to the Anglican Church; Nonconformist
dissident
A dissident person; dissenter
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  1. A dissident person; dissenter
  2. One who disagrees; a dissenter.
nonconformist
One who does not conform to, or refuses to be bound by, accepted beliefs, customs, or practices.
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  1. One who does not conform to, or refuses to be bound by, accepted beliefs, customs, or practices.
  2. A person who does not act in conformity with generally accepted beliefs and practices
  3. A British Protestant who does not belong to the Anglican Church; Dissenter
schismatic
A person who causes or participates in schism
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  1. A person who causes or participates in schism
  2. One who promotes or engages in schism.
sectarian
One characterized by bigoted adherence to a factional viewpoint.
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  1. One characterized by bigoted adherence to a factional viewpoint.
  2. A member of any religious sect
  3. (Obs.) An apostate from an established church
sectary
A dissenter from an established church, especially a Protestant nonconformist.
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  1. A dissenter from an established church, especially a Protestant nonconformist.
  2. A sectarian.
  3. A Dissenter; Nonconformist
separatist
A person who withdraws or secedes, esp. a member of a group that has seceded from a larger group; dissenter
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  1. A person who withdraws or secedes, esp. a member of a group that has seceded from a larger group; dissenter
  2. One who secedes or advocates separation from a group, as from a nation or an established church.
  3. A person who advocates political, religious, or racial separation
Find another word for heretic. In this page you can discover 15 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for heretic, like: schismatic, apostate, sectarian, cynic, pagan, skeptic, dissenter, dissident, nonconformist, schismatic and sectarian.

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

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

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

  • Origen indulged in many speculations which were afterwards condemned, but, as these matters were still open questions in his day, he was not reckoned a heretic. (iii.) In accordance with the New Testament use of the term heresy, it is assumed that moral defect accompanies the intellectual error, that the false view is held pertinaciously, in spite of warning, remonstrance and rebuke; aggressively to win over others, and so factiously, to cause division in the church, a breach in its unity.

  • Then he was liable to be seized and put to death as a pestilent heretic. There only remained to draft and publish the edict containing the ban.

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