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  • So the church tried Galileo as a heretic,  (source)
    heretic = person with unacceptable religious views
  • As he was being accused of heresy before a Jewish court, they saw that "his face became as bright as an angel's."  (source)
    heresy = opinions or actions most people consider immoral
  • it was heresy to entrust mere midwives with medical responsibilities.  (source)
    heresy = an action considered completely improper
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  • she had learned that her hair was utsukushii and that to cut it would be a form of heresy.  (source)
    heresy = an action considered immoral
  • You can't deny he invited every heretic he could lay hands on to preach in the Abbey.  (source)
    heretic = someone with opinions or actions that counter popular belief of what is proper
  • As with any dogma, however, there are bound to be heretics.  (source)
    heretics = people with opinions or actions most people consider immoral
  • Who can keep track of these English heresies?  (source)
    heresies = things most people consider immoral
  • That is really heretical!  (source)
    heretical = counter to popular belief of what is proper
  • One mile down Pennsylvania Avenue, so close he can almost hear the beloved strains of "Dixie" being belted out so heretically by a Yankee band, the twenty-six-year-old actor stands alone in a pistol range.†  (source)
  • They tried to disinherit him on the grounds of his heresy.  (source)
    heresy = opinions or actions most people consider immoral
  • She laughed at herself when she saw that she had expected to be at once a heretic and a returned hero  (source)
    heretic = someone with opinions or actions most people consider immoral
  • Passionate faith I am suspicious of because it hangs witches and burns heretics,  (source)
    heretics = people with opinions most people consider immoral
  • And I refuse to allow these agnostic scientists to employ this courtroom as a sounding board, as a platform from which they can shout their heresies into the headlines!  (source)
    heresies = opinions considered sacrilegious or immoral
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