单词 | heretic |
释义 | heretic/ˈhɛrɪtɪk /noun 1A person believing in or practising religious heresy.It clearly would cover any incitement of hatred by the religious against its heretics, apostates, or members of other faiths....
Synonyms dissident, dissenter, nonconformist, unorthodox thinker, heterodox thinker, apostate, freethinker, iconoclast, schismatic, renegade; sceptic, agnostic, atheist, non-theist, non-believer, unbeliever, idolater, idolatress, pagan, heathen; separatist, sectarian, revisionist rare tergiversator, recreant, recusant, nullifidian archaic paynim 1.1A person holding an opinion at odds with what is generally accepted.It is odd - odd in the extreme - that Barns, the iconoclast, the heretic, uncritically accepts the myths surrounding the birth of the Liberal Party propagated by the elders of the tribe....
OriginMiddle English: from Old French heretique, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek hairetikos 'able to choose' (in ecclesiastical Greek, 'heretical'), from haireomai 'choose'. |
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