heretic

In both his realms, James worked to solidify the Reformation while facing attacks from the Puritans as an oppressor and from Rome as a heretic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

And he doesn't necessarily hope to, he said, which "makes me a bit of a heretic."

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2024

Pearson was shunned by other evangelical leaders, branded a heretic and later became a United Church of Christ minister.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023

Darren Henley, the Arts Council’s chief executive, wrote in The Guardian that “new ideas may seem heretic to traditionalists,” but that opera needed to reinvent itself to “remain exciting and meaningful to future generations.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022

Olly: haikus are awful, they're just less fun limericks Madeline: You've been downgraded from heathen to heretic.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

Mr. Persico mentions that Martin Luther hated Jews and persecuted heretics, and he acknowledges that Locke excluded Catholics and atheists from toleration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

Although the leaders of many anticlerical organizations were deemed heretics and suppressed by church leaders, they nevertheless laid the groundwork for the sixteenth-century religious revolution known as the Protestant Reformation.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

But while Dante walked through a rain of fire, dodging heretics, we ambled through dappled wood of chestnut and tractor-marked dirt tracks, hugging fields and mountain ridges.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2021

They were considered heretics by IS, a Sunni jihadist group.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2021

All night, I slept with Gwenforte curled beside me, and my sleep was deeper than any I had had since my disaster with the heretics in Italy.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz