heresy
异端邪说,异端,异教,妖言惑众
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plural her·e·sies.
- : opinion or doctrine at variance with the orthodox or accepted doctrine, especially of a church or religious system.
- : the maintaining of such an opinion or doctrine.
- : Roman Catholic Church. the willful and persistent rejection of any article of faith by a baptized member of the church.
- : any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs, customs, etc.
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Examples
The trial in which he was convicted by the Inquisition for “vehement suspicion of heresy” exerted a chilling effect on progress in deciphering the laws governing the cosmos.
Yes, I know this is heresy, especially the part about investment bankers.
Days later, Bridenstine took this heresy further when he suggested SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket could boost humans to the Moon.
That might sound like heresy coming from a veteran journalist, and Cose knows it.
A person close to the family told the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle that he was initially arrested for heresy.
His move to the Tribune would be followed by a move to a suburban manse—“Heresy!”
A few hundred years later, Belgian cartographer Gerard Mercator was charged with heresy.
But by doing his job, he may have committed unforgivable heresy in a Santorum-leaning party.
The find led to the discovery of other similar lakes and floods, but was initially disbelieved because it was “geological heresy.”
Joan Boughton, a widow, was burned for heresy; said to be the first female martyr of England.
Probably this is due to the long association of intellectuality and science with heresy.
John Penry, an English controversial writer, executed for against the episcopacy.