Heretic Synonyms

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schismatic
One who promotes or engages in schism.
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cathar
A member of a Christian sect flourishing in western Europe in the 1100s and 1200s, whose dualistic belief, embracing asceticism and identifying the world as the creation of a satanic Demiurge, was condemned by the Church as heretical.
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dissenter
Someone who dissents (disagrees), especially from an established church
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nonconformist
The definition of a nonconformist is a person who refuses to adhere to established social orders or to fulfill the expectations placed on him by custom or society.
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sectarian
A bigot.
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skeptic
The definition of a skeptic is someone inclined to doubt or question rather than just believe matters that are generally accepted.
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dissident
Dissident is defined as someone who disagrees.
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separationist
A separatist.
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separatist
One who secedes or advocates separation from a group, as from a nation or an established church.
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heterodox
Not in agreement with accepted beliefs, especially in church doctrine or dogma.
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unorthodox
Breaking with convention or tradition; not orthodox.
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heresiarch
The founder or head of a heresy or heretical sect
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iconoclast
One who destroys sacred religious images.
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miscreant
The definition of a miscreant is an evil person or a person who behaves badly, gets into trouble and breaks the law.
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rebel
One who engages in armed resistance against the established government of one's country
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renegade
A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause, religion, political party, friend, etc.
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unbeliever
One who lacks belief or faith, especially in a particular religion; a nonbeliever.
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misbeliever
Someone who holds an unauthorised belief; a heretic, an unbeliever.
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religious outcast
a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church
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deviationist
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ebionite
A member of the Ebionites, an early Jewish Christian sect that lived in and around Judea and Palestine from the 1st to the 4th century.
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Words Related to Heretic

pagan
A Neopagan.
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heresy
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apostate
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nestorius
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heretical
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infidel
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traitor
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albigenses
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manichaeans
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martyr
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cynic
A person whose outlook is scornfully and habitually negative.
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religion
The life or condition of a person in a religious order:
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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.

  • 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.

  • During his absence Arius returned to Alexandria, but even now the people are said to have raised a fierce riot against the heretic.

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