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heretic

noun as in person who goes against established beliefs

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His reign was rubbed out because his father, Akhenaten, was a “heretic king” who alienated his own people by banishing the worship of all Egyptian gods save for one.

While a student in London, he had earned a reputation as a “scientific heretic, given to sweeping claims,” according to a paper coauthored by a colleague.

Elected leaders willing to challenge the vocal parts of the base know that the media and their intraparty opponents will leap at the chance to cast them as heretics, probably with some effect.

Theocratic militants from either group view these Shiite Muslims as heretics, and anxious Hazaras are now forming a militia in the mountains of Wardak province, noting that they have no choice but to take up arms if the Americans leave.

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Her latest book, Heretic: The Case for a Muslim Reformation, will be published in April by HarperCollins.

In a 2009 profile of the right-wing firebrand, The New Yorker called Savage “a heretic among heretics.”

So how is she going to live in this society where you die for being a heretic?

The Heretic Andrew Ferguson, The Weekly Standard Who is Thomas Nagel and why are so many of his fellow academics condemning him?

As is so often the case in religious history, it is the heretic who shows the weakness of the believer.

Entrez donc, 'tis the work of one of your compatriots; and here, though a heretic, you may consider yourself on English ground.

A heretic in medicine being indisposed, his physician happened to call.

Let us suppose that any one who denied the old crude errors of astrology was persecuted as a heretic.

The courtesy of the aged Bossuet, the glory of the Church of Rome, was long gratefully remembered by the young heretic.

The Church adjudged Simone heretic, and condemned her for salutary penance to the bread of suffering and the water of affliction.

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On this page you'll find 35 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to heretic, such as: schismatic, dissenter, apostate, cynic, freethinker, and nonconformist.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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