(n.) An opinion held in opposition to the established or commonly received doctrine, and tending to promote a division or party, as in politics, literature, philosophy, etc.; -- usually, but not necessarily, said in reproach.
(n.) Religious opinion opposed to the authorized doctrinal standards of any particular church, especially when tending to promote schism or separation; lack of orthodox or sound belief; rejection of, or erroneous belief in regard to, some fundamental religious doctrine or truth; heterodoxy.
(n.) An offense against Christianity, consisting in a denial of some essential doctrine, which denial is publicly avowed, and obstinately maintained.
Example Sentences:
(1) Top Gear presenter Clarkson, who has been repeatedly criticised for making offensive comments, had condemned Sky for the decision, describing it as "heresy by thought".
(2) At which point – obviously – you reach the stubborn limits of the debate: from even the most supposedly imaginative Labour people as much as any Tories, such heresies would presumably be greeted with sneering derision.
(3) Was this, in fact, a persecuted truth, and our own way of life the heresy?
(4) But such an idea is not part of "sex education" and remains a heresy for those of faith, though the secular belief in this idea too is fairly devout.
(5) They are engaged in a collective act of over-compensation, frantically mouthing the prayers of the new religion now that the old one has been banished as heresy.
(6) But support for Farc, and playing footsie with President Fidel Castro, verges on utter heresy.
(7) He even continued to believe in the ultimate heresy – that incomes policy could be an effective non-monetarist means of controlling inflation.
(8) Within this apocalyptic tradition, Cohn identified the Flagellants who massacred the Jews of Frankfurt in 1349; the widespread heresy of the Free Spirit; the 16th-century Anabaptist theocracy of Münster (though some have criticised Cohn's account of this extraordinary event as lurid); the Bohemian Hussites; the instigators of the German peasants' war; and the Ranters of the English civil war.
(9) Galileo spent the latter part of his life under house arrest courtesy of the Vatican's inquisition for his heresy in insisting the Earth revolved around the sun.
(10) What’s much more questionable is the way the same vengeful attitude is extended to anyone who ever portrayed the last two years of Labour politics in terms of doubt, concern and malaise, and who are being similarly instructed to say sorry for their alleged heresy or be escorted from the building.
(11) To extremists, Timbuktu’s ancient form of Islam - in which superstition and magic cohabit with the teachings of the Qur’an - is heresy.
(12) About 50 other people carried posters reading "Heresy arises from words wrongly used" and "Allah is only for us".
(13) Yet insofar as science and the professions demand a conformity to basic concepts of ideology and practice, certain types of dissent may best be described as heresy.
(14) It will be argued that freedom of movement is a holy principle and that what we are suggesting is heresy,” he said.
(15) To call JP Morgan a glorified utility is something of a heresy in financial circles.
(16) It had even led him to consider what for most Irish football fans is the ultimate heresy.
(17) Whereas any contemplation suggesting routinization in a plastic surgery endeavor may engender abhorrence or bespeak heresy, some generalizations are essential at least as a foundation from which a logical divergence may proceed.
(18) Meanwhile, our French-speaking cousins in Cote D'Ivoire, Senegal and Mali would see the use of okra or nuts as heresy.
(19) The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy.
(20) In this paper, heretical movements are discussed, and heresy is defined [8.
Heretical
Definition:
(a.) Containing heresy; of the nature of, or characterized by, heresy.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that the problem of predicting the selection effect using statistical estimates of heretability is connected with the problem of investigation of population heterogeneity and integrating their genetical structure.
(2) The two reformists Mr Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have sought to portray themselves as the true heirs of the Islamic revolution's spiritual leader, the late Ayatollah Khomeini, but this tactic has since worn thin and Khomeini's successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stepped up his drive to paint Mousavi and Karroubi as western-run heretics.
(3) The IS group considers Shias to be heretics and is fighting Iranian-backed Shia militias in Iraq and Syria.
(4) It used to be it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier,” Cruz said.
(5) Benito Mussolini, the future Fascist leader of Italy, was one of Italy's most prominent socialists, publishing historical biographies under the pen name "Vero Eretico" or "true heretic".
(6) I had never heard a formerly so heretical view expressed in any Arab quarter so publicly.
(7) Then maybe you might even avoid being called by the Inquisition for an 'assessment' of whether you have the Devil's mark or a third nipple or any other sign that you are a heretical 'scrounger'.
(8) Yet it is ever more dissected by hacks and bloggers who pretend to be heretical but are just gossip merchants who never question the deep structures of governance and merely legitimate their own crepuscular existence.
(9) If I’m a heretic then I’m proud because the root of the word ‘heretic’ is ‘choice’.
(10) Obviously games mattered to the crowd, who cheered Jobs's announcement that 12 current games, including Tomb Raider III, StarCraft, Heretic 2, Age of Empires, Quake and Quest for Glory 5 would be out on the Mac within the next 120 days.
(11) The temperature is always a little higher with a heretic in the room.
(12) Moore shows that the production of false knowledge about the victims of persecution, such as heretics and Jews, as well as the destruction of their actual identities, was a crucial feature of Europe's "persecuting societies".
(13) While the crusaders litter the countryside with steaming piles of barbecued heretics, there's some modern Durr Vinci Code whiffle involving hooded business types and clandestine sacrifices conducted in the name of "ze inheritors of ze Grail".
(14) With felicitous timing, London's Royal Court theatre is staging Richard Bean's hilarious if chaotic play, Heretic, about a university department eager for a grant from a multinational company and ready to suppress academic rigour to do so.
(15) He found precursors of the witch-hunts in the persecution of early Christians by the Romans, in the Church's campaigns against 12th-century heretics, and in the destruction of the Knights Templars.
(16) Isis regards Shia Muslims as heretics, and refers to them derogatively as “rafideen” or “rejectionists”.
(17) The difficult position of the heretic as a challenger to an entrenched orthodoxy is described, particularly the attempt of heretics to assert their allegiance to the discourse itself while the orthodoxy attempts to portray them as traitors or apostates.
(18) Many of the dead and wounded, Murtaza said, were from the Shia sect of Islam, which extremist groups drawn from Pakistan's majority Sunni popular regard as heretics.
(19) The core problem was that the stranglehold that market logic secured over public life in this period made the most direct and obvious climate responses seem politically heretical.
(20) The Templar order risked becoming a refuge for heretics who denied Jesus was fully human and the Shroud offered evidence to the contrary.