heretic
noun
a professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by their church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church.
Example Sentences
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For longtime supporters of Cuba’s revolution, Raúl’s moves seemed almost heretically bold.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 26, 2016
Reading in private gave people room to engage with a text, the freedom to think critically and sometimes heretically.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2016
But, cheerfully and despondently, comically and tragically, reverently and heretically, he breaks—because he must be free to break—Fackenheim’s fearful commandment.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 4, 2016
Badiou's very odd, post-existentialist, heretically Marxist and defiantly anti-parliamentary conception of politics has a similar trajectory.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2012
He heretically calls the Isis 'a mere moat,' the Cherwell 'a ditch.'
From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Thomas Wright
