ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsHheresy
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heresy
Meaning: belief opposed to established religious doctrine
heresy in a sentence
How heresy is used in real sentences:
Church officials condemned the scholar's teaching as heresy.
The reformer's claim was treated as heresy by leaders who guarded traditional doctrine.
“At one meeting, a pastor called the claim that humans held no special rank in creation a heresy because it opposed his church's doctrine of human dominion.”
— from the passage The Valley Remembers
Synonyms for heresy
Other words for heresy — heterodoxy, religious dissent and unorthodoxy — carry the same meaning.
- heterodoxy
- religious dissent
- unorthodoxy
Antonyms of heresy
Words that mean the opposite of heresy:
- orthodoxy
- doctrinal conformity
- accepted belief
Where it comes from
From Greek hairesis, meaning 'choice or school of thought.'
Memory hook
HERESY sounds like 'here, see': here, see a belief that defies accepted teaching.