How to Use heretic in a Sentence

heretic

noun

• The church regards them as heretics.
• Galileo was condemned as a heretic for supporting Copernicus's thesis that the earth revolves around the sun and not vice versa.
• The bishop has to decide whether to have the minister tried as a heretic.
  — Celia Storey, Arkansas Online, 24 May 2021
• Guston, too, was a heretic in flight from the high priests of culture.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2020
• Each of our perspectives is gospel and those who disagree with us are heretics.
  — Cameron Smith, AL.com, 30 Dec. 2017
• Only a heretic could so do, and they can be burned for apostasy.
  — Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 19 May 2020
• Bygone heretic hunters and their enablers have become the hunted.
  — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2017
• Keeping the state out of the church’s business meant clerics lost the power to suppress heretics by force.
  — The Economist, 4 Nov. 2017
• Like heretics before him, the quarterback faced an informal ban from the sport for his demonstration.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2017
• For that and other writings, he was declared a heretic, which led him to further critiques of the papal system.
  — Mike Ellis, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2017
• Pageantry was at a premium, even for the auto-da-fé, which involved a single heretic and no fire.
  — Matthew Gurewitsch, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2017
• The liberal as heretic, pursued and denounced by the angry children of the liberal ideal.
  — John Kass, Twin Cities, 11 June 2017
• Soon kingdoms plunged into chaos and war, burning heretics and hanging traitors under orders from popes and queens.
  — Kim Heacox, Alaska Dispatch News, 31 Oct. 2017
• My favorite environmental heretic continues to be in the news.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2013
• But if Bannon is angry, Breitbart will treat Trump like a heretic.
  — Paul Bond, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2017
• Meanwhile, at school, the clerisy is enlisting children in a campaign to expose heretics and unbelievers.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2017
• To have reservations about something that is treated as sacrosanct is to be an unbeliever, or worse, a heretic, and thus someone to be cast out.
  — Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
• The Sunni militants consider the Shiites heretics and urge followers to kill them.
  — Fox News, 9 Mar. 2018
• Games like this showed how chess heretics were unshackling themselves from dogma—exposing their kings and pushing their h-pawns with abandon!
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 26 Apr. 2023
• The theocratic devotion to international trade and to centrism without progressive purpose is now beset by heretics who have the wind at their backs.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 19 Oct. 2016
• The church condemned Abelard as a heretic, effectively silencing his campaign to change church attitudes about the Jews.
  — April Austin, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2018
• Back then, everyone associated with these ideas was regarded as a heretic.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2017
• The activist, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, says the militants consider the pro-democracy protesters heretics.
  — Fox News, 28 Sep. 2018
• As this example illustrates, one of the hardest questions a science commentator faces is when to take a heretic seriously.
  — Matt Ridley, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
• Although the Yazidis are a monotheistic faith, IS viewed them as heretics and sought to annihilate both the people and their religious sites.
  — Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2019
• The existence of these relics somehow threatened the Catholic popes and their royal allies, who eventually branded the Templars heretics.
  — Richard McGill Murphy, Town & Country, 18 Jan. 2013
• In the south of France there was a long crusade in the thirteenth century against heretics known as Cathars (the ‘Albigensian crusade’).
  — Dan Jones, Time, 10 Oct. 2019
• Unfortunately, the narrative of the heretic is self-reinforcing.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2010
• The Islamic State group has attacked Afghan Shiites in the past, and views the religious minority as heretics.
  — NBC News, 6 Mar. 2020
• This proves impossible for much of Carlton's congregation to swallow, and before long many of them are leaving the church and/or decrying him as a heretic.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 12 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024