heresy
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Eventually, science slipped the shackles of heresy and astronomers revolutionized our understanding of Earth’s place in the cosmos.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Most of the unhappy denizens of Dante’s imagined hell are being eternally tormented for specific moral crimes in categories covering lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026
The heresy of yesterday is now – thanks to science and economic crisis – the opportunity of today.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024
I realize this is heresy, but I think it’s important to acknowledge the irreducible strangeness of the drama.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2024
Seated before a mirror with Mrs. Shigemura behind her, she had learned that her hair was utsukushii and that to cut it would be a form of heresy.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
Vocabulary lists containing heresy
Fahrenheit 451
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World Religions
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