heresy
noun
opinion or doctrine at variance with the orthodox or accepted doctrine, especially of a church or religious system.
heresies
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pluralof heresy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Pynchon, a descendant of the colonial family fictionalized in “The House of the Seven Gables,” infuses his chronicle with a modern sense of paranoia and a taste for countercultural heresies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
In the wake of iconoclasm, the leaders of the Orthodox church, the patriarchs of Constantinople, would claim that innovations in theology or Christian practice were heresies.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
“The heresies of one period,” she said, always become “the orthodoxies of the next”.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2018
The papal bull of 1520 excommunicating Luther from the Catholic Church, for example, accused him of promoting 41 heresies and “pestiferous errors.”
From National Geographic ● Oct. 27, 2017
And, on the same model, heresies were named after their originators: Donatism and Arianism, for example.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
