🔄 Synonyms of "Heretic"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| misbelievernoun | Someone who holds a bad or wrong belief; a heretic, an unbeliever. |
| religious outcastnoun | a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the roman catholic church |
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| Word | Definition |
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| misbelievernoun | Someone who holds a bad or wrong belief; a heretic, an unbeliever. |
| religious outcastnoun | a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the roman catholic church |
| heresynoun | (religion) A doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance or conflict with established religious beliefs. |
| heretical | (of ideas or views) Contrary to mainstream or accepted opinion. |
| cultnoun | (informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing. |
| nonconformistnoun | Someone who does not conform to accepted beliefs, customs or practices. |
| akhenatennoun | A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by the 14th century BCE pharaoh Akhenaten, father of Tutankhamon and founder of Atenism |
| marcionnoun | (Christianity, Gnosticism, philosophy, history) Marcion of Sinope, 2nd century AD theologian, philosopher, preacher and founder of Marcionism, a Hellenistic Christian religious belief system influenced by Gnostic theology; compiled the first Biblical canon, consisting solely of Greek New Testament scriptures, totally rejecting the scriptural authority of the Hebrew Tanakh adopted as the canonical Old Testament of the Christian Bible |
| relapsedverb | (intransitive, informal, specifically) To return to a vice, especially self-harm or alcoholism, failing to maintain abstinence. |
| hereticknoun | Obsolete form of heretic. [Someone whose beliefs are contrary to the fundamental tenets of a religion they claim to belong to.] |
| heretikenoun | Archaic spelling of heretic. [Someone whose beliefs are contrary to the fundamental tenets of a religion they claim to belong to.] |
| hæreticknoun | Obsolete form of heretic. [Someone whose beliefs are contrary to the fundamental tenets of a religion they claim to belong to.] |
| hæreticnoun | Archaic spelling of heretic. [Someone whose beliefs are contrary to the fundamental tenets of a religion they claim to belong to.] |
| arch-hereticnoun | (religion) A leader of a heresy, a most prominent or leading heretic. |
| hereticationnoun | The denunciation of a person as a heretic. |
| infidelnoun | One who does not believe in a certain religion. |
| heterodoxynoun | (countable) A heterodox belief, creed, or teaching. |
| reversionistnoun | One who clings to previous patterns of behavior or thought, rejecting social or cultural change. |
| schismatic | Divisive. |
| irreligionistnoun | An irreligious person |
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