heretic
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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
He was greeted as a heretic, a pariah.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2022
The truth is that he really was a heretic and was burned for his religious beliefs; it was just unfortunate that the Copernican model got tangled up in the whole business.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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
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