heresiarchs

plural of heresiarch
as in dissenters
a person who believes, teaches, or advocates something opposed to accepted beliefs his about-face on welfare reform has led him to be seen as a heresiarch among his party's faithful

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Noun
  • Jerusalem — On a hot Friday morning in September, dozens of Israelis turned up at Gaza’s border fence – not as soldiers, but as dissenters.
    Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The assumption among his peers had been that authority—law, custom, tradition—got the benefit of the doubt, and dissenters had to explain why they should be allowed to speak.
    Lula Konner, The New York Review of Books, 4 Oct. 2025
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  • Also not fitting the West’s preconceptions was the fact that most Soviet dissidents didn’t reject socialism.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But many dissidents felt profoundly ambivalent toward a society that, despite having become better educated and more urbanized, was also more dependent than ever on the state.
    Benjamin Nathans September 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
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“Heresiarchs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heresiarchs. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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