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Noun(1) a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church(2) a person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion(3) a person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion)

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(1) He was called a heretic and a rebel, but one who transformed his rebellion into art.(2) It is odd - odd in the extreme - that Barns, the iconoclast, the heretic , uncritically accepts the myths surrounding the birth of the Liberal Party propagated by the elders of the tribe.(3) But you're really risking being branded a heretic just at the moment.(4) George was set upon as heretic , denounced as a traitor and his government contract for a school history book mysteriously cancelled without explanation.(5) Galileo was forced to repudiate his scientific knowledge lest he be declared a heretic by the official church.(6) Bretz was called a dunce and a heretic , but over time his work became widely accepted.(7) I am English, born in Britain, but I am referred to as a heretic , unbeliever, infidel, etc., because I am a Pagan.(8) Pooh-Bah's remark that he had evolved u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510from a globule of primordial protoplasmu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb is even said to have ignited a popular interest in biology and the theories of Darwin, who had until then been rejected as a flaky heretic .(9) If the teacher is a leader, he must also be a sentry - a heretic to criticize the fools who would cast his pupils back into the dark ignorance they had just escaped.(10) I think about Galileo dropping differently weighted things from the tower, only to be branded a heretic .(11) They sought regeneration - a regeneration we can liken to that of the medieval heretic or saint.(12) Exploring the details of Farmer's life, however, reveals that she is, in a sense, not only the Lost Atheist, but also a feminist, a heretic , a social radical.(13) If he intervened to prevent her death, he would be branded a heretic .(14) Declared a heretic by the Pope he was banished from Rome and subsequently vanished, presumed murdered.(15) He was also an ardent heretic and freethinker, maybe an out-and-out atheist, and a vocal defender of the ideas of Charles Darwin.(16) If the term u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510Christianu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb is taken to include heretics , schismatics, and baptized apostates, it would still appear that most are damned.
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Noun
1. dissenter
2. nonconformist
3. apostate
4. freethinker
5. iconoclast
6. agnostic
7. atheist
8. nonbeliever
9. unbeliever
10. idolater
11. idolatress
12. pagan
13. heathen
14. paynim


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