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  • 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
  • it was heresy to entrust mere midwives with medical responsibilities.   (source)
    heresy = an action considered completely improper
  • As with any dogma, however, there are bound to be heretics.   (source)
    heretics = people with opinions or actions most people consider immoral
  • I had listened to Florence's heresy, but the God of the church had not hurled his thunder at me.   (source)
    heresy = opinions opposed to religious principles
  • He knew it lay somewhere between insanity and heresy, and he prayed the Lord would understand his plan.   (source)
    heresy = immoral action (considered by most people to be immoral)
  • You heard some heresy from your aunt; well, here's a bit more, from your uncle.   (source)
    heresy = opinions or actions most people consider immoral
  • Brilliant minds were imprisoned and tortured for heresy   (source)
  • Cudn Hope laughed, but Papa looked like he'd just heard heresy incarnate.   (source)
    heresy = an immoral idea
  • Passionate faith I am suspicious of because it hangs witches and burns heretics,   (source)
    heretics = people with opinions most people consider immoral
  • Don't think on these things. Keep an orderly mind. This stuff is like heresy.   (source)
    heresy = opinions most people consider immoral
  • Who can keep track of these English heresies?   (source)
    heresies = things most people consider immoral
  • Usually she kept these heretical opinions to herself;   (source)
    heretical = unpopular
  • 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
  • [Aron and Cal are discussing having overheard men saying their mother was alive.]
    Aron inspected this heresy. "No," he said. "The men were liars. Father said she's in Heaven."   (source)
    heresy = opinion deeply in opposition to what is commonly accepted -- as though it were immoral
  • The Russians persecuted heresy more cruelly than the Inquisition had done.   (source)
    heresy = beliefs considered to be immoral
  • ...this insignificant fellow with the unsavoury reputation and the heretical opinions.   (source)
    heretical = characterized by opinions or actions most people consider immoral
  • It was a heresy of crackpots and wild men and it was really just an infantilism.   (source)
    heresy = opinions and actions counter to what is considered proper
  • The horror of the Same Old Thing is one of the most valuable passions we have produced in the human heart—an endless source of heresies in religion, folly in counsel, infidelity in marriage, and inconstancy in friendship.   (source)
    heresies = things most people consider immoral
  • But at this moment, heresy though it was, she could not help thinking the Yankees were right on this one matter, even if wrong in all others.   (source)
    heresy = an opinion most people consider immoral
  • It crossed Rieux's mind that Father Paneloux was dallying with heresy in speaking thus,   (source)
    heresy = opinions most people consider immoral
  • "But this is heresy," exclaimed the Queen,   (source)
    heresy = opinions or actions most people consider immoral
  • Death was not the end of pain - to believe in peace was a kind of heresy.   (source)
  • But this is heresy, and I must not say it.   (source)
  • The book being done fell under the eyes of some judges and was suddenly pronounced heretical.   (source)
    heretical = immoral or against the teachings of the church
  • For this reason the bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.   (source)
    heretics = people with opinions or actions most people consider immoral
  • It had been a gruesome experience, but it served him right, he thought, for committing the heresy of going to a strange store.   (source)
    heresy = an action considered immoral or improper
  • They savour of the heretical views of the Anabaptists,   (source)
    heretical = characterized by opinions or actions most people consider immoral
  • "I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way."   (source)
    heresy = opinions or actions most people consider immoral
  • tomorrow I shall condemn Thee and burn Thee at the stake as the worst of heretics.   (source)
    heretics = people with opinions or actions most people consider immoral
  • It would have been flat heresy to do so.   (source)
    heresy = something immoral
  • if it is a heresy to...   (source)
    heresy = counter to proper religious principles
  • ...that thesis touches closely upon heresy.   (source)
    heresy = opinions most people consider immoral
  • ...Emma's religion, he thought, might, from its fervour, end by touching on heresy,   (source)
    heresy = opinions or actions most people consider immoral
  • The tale was told of old Brouwer, a most heretical disbeliever in ghosts,   (source)
    heretical = counter to popular belief
  • a phrase inevitably employed to designate the Huguenot heresy.   (source)
    heresy = immoral action (compared to what is generally accepted)
  • With that, and the white gown and the bare feet, she looked like a penitent — like a heretic in an old painting, on her way to execution.†   (source)
  • Thus, in the ballroom of the Metropol Hotel on the twenty-first of June 1926, was the heretic, Galileo of Galilei, vindicated by a ping, a splat, a smash, a thunk, a thump, and a thud.†   (source)
  • My new faith had put me on the lookout for heretics.†   (source)
  • But these heresies died when he read her last letter.†   (source)
  • She is a heretic, and she refuses to attend Meeting.†   (source)
  • "You think I'm a brute, a heretic, a—"†   (source)
  • The New Prophet was in the middle of his live, planetwide broadcast-literally in the middle of pronouncing the word "heretic"-when 1730 hours arrived.†   (source)
  • In the early 1980s, the notion that a single lineman should be paid much more than any other—and more than star running backs, wide receivers, and, in several cases, quarterbacks—would have been considered heretical had it not been so absurd.†   (source)
  • He compounded his heresy by adding that if New York had won the fair, it would not have done as fine a job.†   (source)
  • That's how Russians say 'heretic.'†   (source)
  • I mean, I can't take a guy seriously when he's using words like "blaspheming," but I'm over a barrel if I don't want to look like the worst kind of heretic in front of Jody.†   (source)
  • Nothing vulgar or heretical.†   (source)
  • I refuse to listen to this heresy in my own home.†   (source)
  • Marley fulfilled the prophecy, committing the ultimate Dog Beach heresy.†   (source)
  • Hester Deale, do you renounce Giles Dent and the woman Ann Hawkins as witches and heretics?†   (source)
  • "A novice and a heretic," he said.†   (source)
  • Have you ever heard of the Heretic Kings and the Heretic Queens before?†   (source)
  • That was heresy.†   (source)
  • He described him as a cross between a billy goat and a female heretic, an infernal beast whose breath scorched the air and whose look brought on the birth of monsters in newlywed women.†   (source)
  • Don't let me catch you preaching some heretical religion among the guests!†   (source)
  • Even before the coup, it was heresy to speak against His Majesty.†   (source)
  • What didn't fit this equation became heretical—if you weren't worshipping the right way, you were out.†   (source)
  • God had ordered him to call out these heretics on their own turf, and so each afternoon during Revival Week! he and his little gang huddled at the various churches for prayers and rants.†   (source)
  • He calmed himself Do you know the price that she will pay for this heretical sentiment you've dragged out of her?†   (source)
  • He looked around suspiciously, in case of lurking heresy.†   (source)
  • As containing the true doctrine of popular infallibility, from which it would be heretical to depart in one single point?†   (source)
  • "Through all the ages," he said, "the mind has been regarded as evil, and every form of insult: from heretic to materialist to exploiterevery form of iniquity: from exile to disfranchisement to expropriation-every form of torture: from sneers to rack to firing squadhave been brought down upon those who assumed the responsibility of looking at the world through the eyes of a living consciousness and performing the crucial act of a rational connection.†   (source)
  • Perhaps I'm a heretic, but I'll deal with that after the war.'†   (source)
  • This letter fell like a thunderbolt on his father, who regarded it as heresy.†   (source)
  • For a long time, it seemed forever, I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of rain.†   (source)
  • We cannot agree in the political heresy that says: For forms of government let fools contest—
    That which is best administered is best—
    But we can say that the true test of a good government is its aptitude and tendency to produce a good administration.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • "But what," she felt like some kind of a heretic, "if the Demon exists only because the two equations look alike?†   (source)
  • They were more than heretical.†   (source)
  • Unbelievers, heretics, usurers, perverts, suicides.†   (source)
  • The local Brahmins did not approve of the antiritualistic teachings of the Buddha, but his presence filled their coffers to overflowing; so they learned to live in his squat shadow, never voicing the word tirthika-heretic.†   (source)
  • But she's not looking after cattle now, such a heretic, devil's reverend mother she has turned out to be, she says cows' masses, and rums young refugee wives from their duty.†   (source)
  • Many Senators before and after 1804 have combatted the ill-effects of being termed a political heretic by their party chieftains by building strong personal popularity among their constituents.†   (source)
  • A barmaid glimmered through the passage in her frill, a glad cry went up at her entrance, as if she were the heresy herself, and when they all called out something fresh it was like the signal for a song.†   (source)
  • (MARGARET is alarmed, and from behind mom tries to silence ROPER) ROPER The Church is heretical!†   (source)
  • The heresy of heresies was common sense.   (source)
    heresy = immoral act
  • The heresy of heresies was common sense.   (source)
    heresies = immoral things (as defined by common opinion)
  • We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destroy him.   (source)
    heretic = person with opinions considered to be immoral
  • Perhaps Withers or someone close to him had been suspected of heretical tendencies.   (source)
    heretical = characterized by opinions or actions most people consider immoral
  • Goldstein and his heresies will live forever.   (source)
    heresies = immoral beliefs (as defined by common opinion)
  • The heretical thought would be unpunished, unrepented, out of their reach forever.   (source)
    heretical = immoral (as defined by common belief)
  • In the Middle Ages there was the Inquisition. It was a failure. It set out to eradicate heresy, and ended by perpetuating it.   (source)
    heresy = beliefs considered to be immoral
  • In the old days the heretic walked to the stake still a heretic, proclaiming his heresy, exulting in it.   (source)
  • In the old days the heretic walked to the stake still a heretic, proclaiming his heresy, exulting in it.   (source)
    heretic = person with opinions considered to be immoral
  • All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching.   (source)
    heresies = actions and opinions consider to be immoral
  • In the Middle Ages there was the Inquisition. ... For every heretic it burned at the stake, thousands of others rose up.   (source)
    heretic = person with opinions considered to be immoral
  • The heretic, the enemy of society, will always be there, so that he can be defeated and humiliated over again.   (source)
  • There were also whispered stories of a terrible book, a compendium of all the heresies, of which Goldstein was the author and which circulated clandestinely here and there.   (source)
    heresies = opinions consider to be immoral
  • Always we shall have the heretic here at our mercy, screaming with pain, broken up, contemptible — and in the end utterly penitent, saved from himself, crawling to our feet of his own accord.   (source)
    heretic = person with opinions considered to be immoral
  • He believed in the principles of Ingsoc, he venerated Big Brother, he rejoiced over victories, he hated heretics, not merely with sincerity but with a sort of restless zeal, an up-to-dateness of information, which the ordinary Party member did not approach.   (source)
    heretics = people with opinions consider to be immoral
  • Thus, at one moment Winston's hatred was not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against Big Brother, the Party, and the Thought Police; and at such moments his heart went out to the lonely, derided heretic on the screen, sole guardian of truth and sanity in a world of lies.   (source)
    heretic = person with opinions considered to be immoral
  • It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction.   (source)
    heretical = immoral (as defined by common belief)
  • ...that tremendous heresy about George Washington.   (source)
    heresy = something 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
  • it is heresy to say that in this house   (source)
    heresy = an action considered immoral
  • This fellow has heresy in his essay.   (source)
    heresy = opinions most people consider immoral
  • There, then, with uplifted forefinger, he first put me on my guard against a considerable number of heresies,   (source)
    heresies = opinions or actions most people consider immoral
  • not a week passed which had not its counterfeiter to boil, or its witch to hang, or its heretic to burn,   (source)
    heretic = someone with opinions or actions most people consider immoral
  • Subversion, sedition, blasphemy, heresy, all rolled into one.†   (source)
  • The Justice spoke, "Under Tehlu's watchful eye, I charge you with heresy."†   (source)
  • Those who 'chose' the original history of Christ were the world's first heretics.†   (source)
  • — What I am is a heretic who's recanted, and thereby in everyone's eyes saved his soul.†   (source)
  • Positively heretical!" then laugh loudly himself.†   (source)
  • Matthew sat intent, ready to pounce on a hint of heresy.†   (source)
  • Spinoza belonged to the Jewish community of Amsterdam, but he was excommunicated for heresy.†   (source)
  • Madeline: You've been downgraded from heathen to heretic.†   (source)
  • Anthony, would a fine place such as this be harboring heretics?†   (source)
  • The word heretic derives from that moment in history.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER EIGHT — Thieves, Heretics, and Whores†   (source)
  • Anthony, we seem to have found a courteous heretic, how strange and wonderful!†   (source)
  • We cannot allow his heresy to spread further.†   (source)
  • Namely, we learned that they were heresy.†   (source)
  • Behind me, in the next room, my father was saying: Heresy, too!†   (source)
  • On the other hand, there could be no denying the man's flagrant heresy.†   (source)
  • Heresy was his word for their word for her marrying a Presbyterian.†   (source)
  • They called their gospels heresy, and the Nag Hammadi texts were hidden for two thousand years.†   (source)
  • I have made my challenge to this heresy, and now you will decide this man's fate.†   (source)
  • I'm sure you already know that heresy comes from the Greek word for choice.†   (source)
  • Well, in spite of how Maggie introduced you, you don't seem like a heretic to me.†   (source)
  • Thanks to Shay, my supervising priest thinks I'm a heretic.†   (source)
  • The biggest heresies are the ones that scare the Church to death.†   (source)
  • He shook his head, but stopped short of calling me a heretic.†   (source)
  • In January and February the whine of my boat was heresy to the silence of the grasses.†   (source)
  • You'd have been burned alive in Spain, during your heretic period.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, that was the greatest of heresies.†   (source)
  • Ah, it's a heresy, I told him," a man inside was shouting, out of the middle of his story.†   (source)
  • (Firmly) And will be "no" so long as you're a heretic.†   (source)
  • MORE As long as he's a heretic, Meg, that's absolute.†   (source)
  • Peter once compared Noetic Scientists to the early explorers who were mocked for embracing the heretical notion of a spherical earth.†   (source)
  • "Five members of the heretical sect of Quakers have been arrested," he says, smiling blandly, "and more arrests are anticipated."†   (source)
  • "As you probably know," Langdon said, "despite Galileo's compromise, Diàlogo was still seen as heretical, and the Vatican placed him under house arrest."†   (source)
  • While many Templars believe that the Shrike is the Avatar of punishment for those who do not feed from the root, I must consider this a heresy not founded in the Covenant or the writings of the Muir.†   (source)
  • Ogden didn't go so far as to suggest that he should play quarterback, but he came as close as any lineman ever had to the heretical thought.†   (source)
  • When they were asked about the divine mysteries of their forebears, the new custodians of faith vociferously disowned them, condemning them as heresy.†   (source)
  • What had started out as a heresy from traditional rhetoric turned into a beautiful introduction to it.†   (source)
  • Heliocentricity was called heresy.†   (source)
  • The New Prophet agreed with Kassad's statement that Allah would horribly punish heretics but announced that it was the Hegemony infidels who would be so punished.†   (source)
  • Either way it's heresy.†   (source)
  • Was that the heresy?†   (source)
  • On that day, countless Knights were captured, tortured mercilessly, and finally burned at the stake as heretics.†   (source)
  • He also announced that interpretation of the Koran since the Shi'ites" seedship days had definitely shown that the God of Islam would neither condone nor allow the slaughter of the innocent, no matter how many jihads were proclaimed by tinhorn heretics like the New Prophet.†   (source)
  • We know, for instance, that he met his end, probably soon after the events our author describes, in one of the earliest purges: he was accused of liberal tendencies, of being in possession of a substantial and unauthorized collection of heretical pictorial and literary materials, and of harboring a subversive.†   (source)
  • He was dressed in the garb of a medieval heretic being led to the gallows—noose around his neck, left pant leg rolled up to the knee, right sleeve rolled up to the elbow, and his shirt gaping open to reveal his bare chest.†   (source)
  • During the Renaissance there was a tremendous thirst for trying witches, burning heretics, magic and superstition, bloody religious wars—and not least, the brutal conquest of America.†   (source)
  • "Leigh," Langdon said, turning, "during the Inquisition, the Church accused the Knights Templar of all kinds of heresies, right?"†   (source)
  • As was tradition, he had begun this journey adorned in the ritualistic garb of a medieval heretic being led to the gallows, his loose-fitting shirt gaping open to reveal his pale chest, his left pant leg rolled up to the knee, and his right sleeve rolled up to the elbow.†   (source)
  • "They'd taken him in on heresy.†   (source)
  • The medieval Italian card game was so replete with hidden heretical symbolism that Langdon had dedicated an entire chapter in his new manuscript to the Tarot.†   (source)
  • Midwives also were killed for their heretical practice of using medical knowledge to ease the pain of childbirth—a suffering, the Church claimed, that was God's rightful punishment for Eve's partaking of the Apple of Knowledge, thus giving birth to the idea of Original Sin.†   (source)
  • Clement's letter claimed that God had visited him in a vision and warned him that the Knights Templar were heretics guilty of devil worship, homosexuality, defiling the cross, sodomy, and other blasphemous behavior.†   (source)
  • It was heresy, blasphemy, to think that he could convince the farmers to abandon their fields and the merchants their shops …. and yet …. and yet what was the alternative but slavery or death?†   (source)
  • The Queen has had grandchildren since, discarded thousands of hats, grown a bosom and (heresy to think it) the beginning of a double chin.†   (source)
  • The stuff of heretics—blasphemous!†   (source)
  • In fact, it was John Quincy, who, rising to the defense of his father, took Jefferson to task for claiming that a difference in political opinion might be declared "heresy," and those who differed in view from the Secretary of State were therefore heretics.†   (source)
  • This heretical suggestion had been squelched because, as one of Cleburne's fellow officers said, "its propositions contravene the principles on which we fight."†   (source)
  • Now, with Lord Desjardins' permission, we will bring this young heretic back to the First Nome, where he will be given a fair triar—Menshikov turned toward me, his ruined eyes burning with triumph—"and then, executed.†   (source)
  • Passionate faith I am suspicious of because it hangs witches and burns heretics, and generally I am more in sympathy with the witches and heretics than with the sectarians who hang and burn them.†   (source)
  • Tribes of Reds who weren't even heretics, let alone Christians--they were heathen, and half the military operation in Detroit consisted of buying those hideous bloody trophies-- "Why, my dear Frederic, you really are taking a chill," said La Fayette.†   (source)
  • But heresy is a different matter.†   (source)
  • I have always understood, sir, that the citizens of these States were possessed of a full and entire freedom of opinion upon all subjects civil as well as religious; they have not yet established any infallible criterion of orthodoxy, either in church or state …. and the only political tenet which they could stigmatize with the name of heresy would be that which should attempt to impose an opinion upon their understandings, upon the single principle of authority.†   (source)
  • Tell the truth, she was scared of her daddy, as if she wasn't sure he'd got over her not being a boy and her marrying a Presbyterian — though the way I heard it from Cudn Temp, Grandpa was all for her marrying my daddy, and had a fit when the Baptist deacons tried her for heresy.†   (source)
  • To speak heresy in my house, too.†   (source)
  • Still, this man before him threatened the very fabric of the Great Romance with his heresy, and his rhetoric was growing stronger, they said.†   (source)
  • Jefferson claimed to be astonished but privately confirmed that by "political heresies" he meant the writings of John Adams.†   (source)
  • Along with half a dozen more heresies it landed Marther in court, and started agitation for a ban on further exploration.†   (source)
  • I am somewhat at a loss to determine [he wrote] what this very respectable gentleman means by political heresies.†   (source)
  • He did not tell Adams, as he had Washington, that he had Adams specifically in mind as the perpetrator of "heresies."†   (source)
  • He had written what he had about "heresies," he said, only "to take off a little of the dryness of the note."†   (source)
  • Whether it was from "the prejudices of education" or from a "natural antipathy," she knew not, "but my whole soul shuddered whenever I saw the sooty heretic Moor touch the fair Desdemona."†   (source)
  • Through a series of editorial decisions, they were excluded— and considered heresy by the early Christian church.†   (source)
  • Jefferson, on receiving an early copy, promptly passed it on to a Philadelphia printer with a note warmly endorsing it as the answer to "the political heresies that have sprung up among us."†   (source)
  • It was easy to see why, in seminary, this had been taught as heresy: the basis of Christianity was that there was only one God, and He was so different from man that the only way to reach Him was through Jesus.†   (source)
  • That Jefferson himself had once praised his Defence of the Constitutions, apparently finding no heresies therein, Adams, to his credit, made no mention.†   (source)
  • He was a famous orthodox Christian historian whose text The Prescription Against Heretics was a forerunner of the Nicene Creed.†   (source)
  • "For God's sake, my dear sir," Jefferson would admonish Madison, "take up your pen, select the most striking heresies, and cut him to pieces in the face of the public."†   (source)
  • Do you think you're a heretic?†   (source)
  • In fact, it was John Quincy, who, rising to the defense of his father, took Jefferson to task for claiming that a difference in political opinion might be declared "heresy," and those who differed in view from the Secretary of State were therefore heretics.†   (source)
  • Anyone who'd had limited religious instruction or a thorough college education knew about the Catholic Church and its role in politics and history—not to mention the heresies that had been squelched over the centuries.†   (source)
  • Then, in the line that caused the stir, Jefferson wrote: It would give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to those heresies, men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England.†   (source)
  • "Does any heretic?" he said.†   (source)
  • He's a heretic.†   (source)
  • Cal tried to absorb this heresy.†   (source)
  • He looks at the ring of faces, which have been disturbed by BROWN'S description of the heretic DRUMMOND.†   (source)
  • His former colleagues in the State Legislature publicly charged him with ungrateful "conduct worthy of Machiavelli"; but he wrote his mother that he felt that, as Senator, he could best determine what Massachusetts' best interests were, and "if Federalism consists in looking to the British navy as the only palladium of our liberty, I must be a political heretic."†   (source)
  • It was said, by the theologians and holy historians, that the one called Sam had recanted his heresy and thrown himself upon the mercy of Trimurti.†   (source)
  • "It's heretic!"†   (source)
  • (Almost reluctantly, she starts to read) My typewriter's been singing A sweet, sad song about the Hillsboro heretic, B. Cates: boy-Socrates, latter-day Dreyfus, Romeo with a biology book.†   (source)
  • But of Sam-he did the same thing-compounding this plurality of heresies-burying the true Word even deeper ….†   (source)
  • ROPER From a heretic Church!†   (source)
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