Sample Sentences for
heresy
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  • They tried to disinherit him on the grounds of his heresy.  (source)
  • 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
  • A man named Latimer said that to a man named Nicholas Ridley, as they were being burnt alive at Oxford, for heresy, on October 16, 1555.  (source)
    heresy = opinions or actions most people consider immoral
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  • The Russians persecuted heresy more cruelly than the Inquisition had done.  (source)
    heresy = beliefs considered to be 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)
  • 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
  • Anyone who chose the forbidden gospels over Constantine's version was deemed a heretic.  (source)
    heretic = someone with unacceptable beliefs
  • I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of 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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