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Heresy

Heresy Meaning & Definition
Heresy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Heresy?

[n] a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion
[n] any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position

Synonyms | Synonyms for Heresy: heterodoxy | unorthodoxy

Related Terms | Find terms related to Heresy: aberrancy | aberration | agnosticism | Albigensianism | ambiguity | ambivalence | antinomianism | antinomy | apostasy | Arianism | asymmetry | atheism | beatnikism | Bohemianism | Catharism | defection | defectiveness | delusion | denial | deviancy | disbelief | discredit | disproportion | disproportionateness | dissent | dissidence | distortion | Ebionitism | emanatism | equivocality | Erastianism | errancy | erroneousness | error | fallaciousness | fallacy | false doctrine | falseness | falsity | fault | faultiness | flaw | flawedness | fringiness | Gnosticism | hamartia | heterodoxy | heterogeneity | hippiedom | hylotheism | illusion | impiety | inability to believe | incoherence | incommensurability | incompatibility | incongruity | inconsistency | inconsonance | incredulity | infidelity | irreconcilability | Jovinianism | Lollardy | Manichaeanism | Manichaeism | minimifidianism | misapplication | misbelief | misconstruction | misdoing | misfeasance | misinterpretation | misjudgment | Monophysism | Monophysitism | nonbelief | nonconformability | nonconformism | nonconformity | nullifidianism | originality | oxymoron | pantheism | paradox | peccancy | Pelagianism | perversion | rejection | revisionism | schism | self-contradiction | sin | sinfulness | unbelief | unbelievingness | unconformability | unconformity | unconventionality | unorthodoxy | untrueness | untruth | untruthfulness | Waldensianism | wrong | wrongness | Wyclifism

See Also | disbelief | iconoclasm | nonconformance | nonconformity | orientation | unbelief

Heresy In Webster's Dictionary

\Her"e*sy\, n.; pl. {Heresies}. [OE. heresie, eresie, OF. heresie, iresie, F. h['e]r['e]sie, L. haeresis, Gr. ? a taking, a taking for one's self, choosing, a choice, a sect, a heresy, fr. ? to take, choose.] 1. 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. New opinions Divers and dangerous, which are heresies, And, not reformed, may prove pernicious. --Shak. After the study of philosophy began in Greece, and the philosophers, disagreeing amongst themselves, had started many questions . . . because every man took what opinion he pleased, each several opinion was called a heresy; which signified no more than a private opinion, without reference to truth or falsehood. --Hobbes. 2. (Theol.) 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. Doubts 'mongst divines, and difference of texts, From whence arise diversity of sects, And hateful heresies by God abhor'd. --Spenser. Deluded people! that do not consider that the greatest heresy in the world is a wicked life. --Tillotson. 3. (Law) An offense against Christianity, consisting in a denial of some essential doctrine, which denial is publicly avowed, and obstinately maintained. A second offense is that of heresy, which consists not in a total denial of Christianity, but of some its essential doctrines, publicly and obstinately avowed. --Blackstone. Note: ``When I call dueling, and similar aberrations of honor, a moral heresy, I refer to the force of the Greek ?, as signifying a principle or opinion taken up by the will for the will's sake, as a proof or pledge to itself of its own power of self-determination, independent of all other motives.'' --Coleridge.

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