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heretic

noun as in person who goes against established beliefs

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And he doesn't necessarily hope to, he said, which "makes me a bit of a heretic."

From Salon

It is a field of study that the modern-day heretics who have signed the New York Declaration claim has been neglected, even ridiculed.

From BBC

He made waves in 2019 when he rescinded a pair of controversial rules banning baptisms for the children of gay parents and branding same-sex couples as heretics who could face excommunication.

Trump’s many critics and prosecutors are just heretics trying to lead them astray.

From Salon

The show is set in 1600, as Europeans have been waging centuries of brutal religious warfare and burning heretics alive.

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

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