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Vegetarianism in those days was a strange if not heretical way of nourishing oneself.

From New York Times Nov. 20, 2021

Gentle but not effeminate, questioning but not heretical, he’s a curious mediator for these women.

From Washington Post Apr. 1, 2019

“Little Cloud is a simplified symbol of light and hope, a happy little gift,” Mr. Borkson said with an earnestness that is unusual, if not heretical, in the art world.

From New York Times Oct. 31, 2018

Yet less than a generation after Hermas, the claim to exercise the gift of prophecy in the church was looked upon as dangerous if not heretical.

From The Making of the New Testament by Bacon, Benjamin Wisner

Nevertheless he was looked upon as more or less of a survival, and was deemed lukewarm, if not heretical, by those who seemed to be the pillars of the new system.

From Erewhon Revisited by Butler, Samuel




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