heresies
- plural of heresy.
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 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
Once a principle is established as orthodox, its observance is enforced in much the same way that a religious doctrine maintains its integrity: by repressing or simply eschewing heresies.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2017
He had refused to recant his heresies, including his belief in other inhabited worlds.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
