All 3 Uses of
heresy
in
Inherit the Wind
- He looks at the ring of faces, which have been disturbed by BROWN'S description of the heretic DRUMMOND.†
Scene 1.1heretic = someone with opinions or actions that counter popular belief of what is proper
- (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†
Scene 1.1
- 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!
Scene 2.2 *heresies = opinions considered sacrilegious or immoral
Definition:
opinions or actions most people consider immoral