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[ huh -ret -i-kuh l ] SHOW IPA
/ həˈrɛt ɪ kəl / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.
Origin of heretical First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English word from Medieval Latin word haereticālis. See heretic, -al1
SYNONYMS FOR heretical unorthodox, unconventional, dissident, radical.
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OTHER WORDS FROM heretical he·ret·i·cal·ly, adverb he·ret·i·cal·ness, noun non·he·ret·i·cal, adjective non·he·ret·i·cal·ly, adverb
sem·i·he·ret·i·cal, adjective
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Words nearby heretical heresthetic, here's to, heresy, here, there, and everywhere, heretic, heretical , hereto, Here today, gone tomorrow, heretofore, here to stay, hereunder
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Example sentences from the Web for heretical This is a heretical view and if it were left at that, I don't think much good would come of it.
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Either way, the FSA-ISIS feud got worse after the McCain visit with the Northern Storm, which ISIS viewed as a heretical act.
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Son of God is so awful that it borders on godless—not sinful or heretical , just lacking true Spirit.
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Conservatives have written the whole thing off as the heretical pursuit of the Bush administration.
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That on his refusing to abjure these heretical opinions, he was turned over to the inquisition, by whom he was finally condemned.
Fox's Book of Martyrs | John Foxe
Under the action of such principles apocryphal books tended to pass into the class of spurious and heretical writings.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 | Various
A single stroke would thus disencumber Rome of both the heretical doctor and the heretical university.
History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Vol 2 | J. H. Merle D'Aubign
The heads of the order are heretical , cruel, and sacrilegious men.
Secret Societies of the Middle Ages | Thomas Keightley
To confute heresy was his chief delight; and his vanity was indulged to its utmost when the heretical Lambert was tried.
Body, Parentage and Character in History | Furneaux Jordan
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Words related to heretical agnostic, apostate, atheistic, disagreeing, dissident, heterodox, iconoclastic, idolatrous, impious, infidel, miscreant, nonconformist, sectarian, skeptical, unbelieving, schismatic, differing, dissenting, freethinking, misbelieving