Heretics synonyms

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cathars
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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separatists
A person who advocates political, religious, or racial separation
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sectaries
A sectarian.
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nonconformists
A British Protestant who does not belong to the Anglican Church; Dissenter
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dissidents
A person who formally opposes the current political structure, opposes the political group in power, opposes the policies of the political group in power, or opposes current laws.
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dissenters
A British Protestant who does not belong to the Anglican Church; Nonconformist
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unbelievers
A person who does not believe; doubter
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skeptics
Someone undecided as to what is true.
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renegades
An outlaw; a rebel.
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miscreants
(Archaic) An unbeliever or heretic
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infidels
A person who does not believe in a particular religion, esp. the prevailing religion
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iconoclasts
One who destroys religious images or icons, especially an opponent of the Orthodox Church in the 8th and 9th centuries, or a Puritan during the European Reformation.
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apostates
Apostate is defined as someone who has left behind his religious or political beliefs or his principles.
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religions (related)
The belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers, regarded as creating and governing the universe:
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pagans (related)
An adherent of a religion other than Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.
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cynics (related)
The definition of a cynic is a person who thinks all actions are selfish and whose outlook is negative.
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Find another word for heretics. In this page you can discover 17 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for heretics, like: cathars, separatists, sectaries, nonconformists, dissidents, dissenters, unbelievers, skeptics, renegades, rebels and miscreants.
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Heretics Sentence Examples

  • Here, too, he published, in 1531, his most important work, the Chronica, Zeitbuch and Geschichtsbibel, largely a compilation on the basis of the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493), and in its treatment of social and religious questions connected with the Reformation, exhibiting a strong sympathy with heretics, and an unexampled fairness to all kinds of freedom in opinion.

  • In matters of doctrine the pope supported Bernard of Clairvaux in his prosecution of Abelard and Arnold of Brescia, whom he condemned as heretics.

  • His apologists explain that his action was merely "official," but Bonner was one of those who brought it to pass that the condemnation of heretics to the fire should be part of his ordinary official duties.

  • The enforcement of the first Book of Common Prayer had also been part of his official duties; and the fact that Bonner made no such protest against the burning of heretics as he had done in the former case shows that he found it the more congenial duty.

  • Among the principal events of that reign must be reckoned the foundation of the two orders, Franciscan and Dominican, who were destined to form a militia for the holy see in conflict with the empire and the heretics of Lombardy.

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