heretic
异端分子,异教徒,异端邪说者,异端者
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Definitions
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- : a professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by his or her church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church.
- : Roman Catholic Church. a baptized Roman Catholic who willfully and persistently rejects any article of faith.
- : anyone who does not conform to an established attitude, doctrine, or principle.
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- : heretical.
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Examples
While a student in London, he had earned a reputation as a “scientific heretic, given to sweeping claims,” according to a paper coauthored by a colleague.
Elected leaders willing to challenge the vocal parts of the base know that the media and their intraparty opponents will leap at the chance to cast them as heretics, probably with some effect.
Theocratic militants from either group view these Shiite Muslims as heretics, and anxious Hazaras are now forming a militia in the mountains of Wardak province, noting that they have no choice but to take up arms if the Americans leave.
Her latest book, Heretic: The Case for a Muslim Reformation, will be published in April by HarperCollins.
In a 2009 profile of the right-wing firebrand, The New Yorker called Savage “a heretic among heretics.”
So how is she going to live in this society where you die for being a heretic?
The Heretic Andrew Ferguson, The Weekly Standard Who is Thomas Nagel and why are so many of his fellow academics condemning him?
As is so often the case in religious history, it is the heretic who shows the weakness of the believer.
Entrez donc, 'tis the work of one of your compatriots; and here, though a heretic, you may consider yourself on English ground.
A heretic in medicine being indisposed, his physician happened to call.
Let us suppose that any one who denied the old crude errors of astrology was persecuted as a .