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
You’ll need more heresies than that to oust an incumbent in a primary.
From Slate ● May 24, 2022
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
All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching.
From "1984" by George Orwell
