All 3 Uses of
heresy
in
Cold Sassy Tree
- 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.†
heresy = opinions or actions most people consider immoral
- Heresy was his word for their word for her marrying a Presbyterian.†
- Cudn Hope laughed, but Papa looked like he'd just heard heresy incarnate.
*heresy = an immoral idea