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
That, of course, was heresy, since Namath played for the AFL’s New York Jets and the big boys from the NFL champion Baltimore Colts, led by Johnny Unitas, were 19-point favorites.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2025
But his suggestion that animals think and feel was seen as scientific heresy among many, if not most animal behaviour experts.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2024
According to one tradition, when the philosopher Protagoras was convicted on charges of heresy, his books were dumped in the city marketplace and burned.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
Vocabulary lists containing heresy
Fahrenheit 451
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World Religions
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