Heretics is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HERETICS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• HERETIC, one that upholds heresy
• a person believing in or practising religious heresy.
• a person holding an opinion at odds with what is generally accepted.

Words related to HERETICS

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How to use HERETICS in a sentence

• The Reformation movement had spread to Italy, but Rome was successful in suppressing it, and many heretics fled to Switzerland.
• Philip was ill at Segovia when he received accounts of the excesses of the image-breakers, and of the convention concluded with the heretics.
• It was not customary in that age for the Roman Church to spare heretics, whether high or low.
• They rarely descend to the plains or cities of the empire, and look upon the rest of the Jews of this country as heretics.
• Piles of fagots were set up, first at Orleans and then at Toulouse, for the punishment of heretics.
• Two royal edicts, one dated July 24, 1558, and the other June 14, 1559, had renewed and aggravated the severity of penal legislation against heretics.
• Add thereto zeal for religion, which is as ardent amongst heretics as Catholics, and you will no longer be surprised that we should be often very much embarrassed.
• Heretics have as direct a relation to antecedent conditions as the orthodox.
• Thousands of heretics would turn to the Church if you did but give the word.
• They were violent against heretics and enemies of the Church.
• The slumbering germs of heresy, left perhaps by Abelard, or by the heretics in Toulouse and Provence, were quickly warmed into life.
• And though the heretics pleaded tradition in support of their peculiar dogmas, it was clear that their statements could not stand the test of examination.
• Hippolytus could not have been a favourite with either Zephyrinus or Callistus, for he denounced both as heretics.
• The scattered exceptions to the believers in this doctrine have been few, and have ever been styled heretics by their contemporaries.
• In Marcion the Church Fathers chiefly attacked what they attacked in all Gnostic heretics, but here error shewed itself in its worst form.
• The clergy no longer have the pulpit to themselves, for the new Reviews became more powerful pulpits, in which heretics were at least as welcome as orthodox.
• In their inquiries they painfully entangled geography, as they could only comprehend two divisions in it, the countries of heretics, and the countries of Christians.
• The Inquisition, not satisfied with burning heretics, judged and punished gangs of cattle-lifters.
• This, too, though he threw himself earnestly into the battle against the heretics.
• While they were lying in jail the Federal Commissioners, then in session at Plymouth, recommended that laws be forthwith enacted to keep these dreaded heretics out of the land.
• King James of Scotland had undertaken, at the instigation of the pope and of the King of France to attack the English as heretics.
• The horrible crusade against heretics became the business of the rest of her life.
• The Commons consented to sacrifice the heretics, but they still cast wistful looks on the lands of the religious houses.
• His feeling, though genuine, extended no further than to pity, to a desire to recover estimable heretics out of errors which he would endeavour to pardon.
• Such also was the worship paid by the ancient heretics, disciples of Simon and Menander, to the angels, whom they believed to be makers and lords of this lower world.

Similar words containing HERETIC without suffix s

heretic12 apheretic16 heretical14 hereticate15 heretically19 hereticated17 hereticates16 hereticating18

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