Heretic synonyms

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pagan (related)
A Neopagan.
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schismatic
One who promotes or engages in schism.
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heresy (related)
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apostate (related)
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nestorius (related)
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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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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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heretical (related)
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blasphemer (related)
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persecutor (related)
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infidel (related)
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traitor (related)
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albigenses (related)
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manichaeans (related)
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martyr (related)
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cynic (related)
A person whose outlook is scornfully and habitually negative.
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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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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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religion (related)
The life or condition of a person in a religious order:
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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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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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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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Find another word for heretic. In this page you can discover 36 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for heretic, like: pagan, schismatic, heresy, apostate, nestorius, skeptic, dissenter, nonconformist, sectarian, heretical and blasphemer.
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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.

  • 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.

  • Of the sources, which are very numerous, may be mentioned: the Liber Sententiarum I These they often confounded, and a heretic is described as saying: " Clergy and French, they are one and the same thing."

  • Maybe part of being liberal is a willingness to question every part of faith at the risk of being called a heretic.

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