0 someone who has an opinion that is opposite to or against the official or popular opinion:
He complained that anyone who challenges an assumption about global warming gets branded a heretic.
When he began to enunciate his views, Friedman was largely considered a heretic.
They learned how Catholics persecuted heretics in the Middle Ages.
Akhenaten was declared a heretic for challenging established religion by worshipping one god.
1 a person who has beliefs that are opposed to the official belief of a church and that the church considers wrong
All our friends are pro-war and think we are heretics for talking against the president.
Anyone who challenges the status quo is considered a heretic.
He said "I am a believer in the true faith and you are a heretic."
During the Inquisition, suspected heretics were burned at the stake.
The answer here is to admit that this alleged modalist is no heretic at all - at least, not on this count.
The due process of correction, whereby the corrector detects obstinate heretics, entails an aspect of inquisitorial deterrence.
Inquisitors may well have seen heretics as particularly prone to the sins of avarice and usury.
This sounds as a heretic combination of words to some social and cultural anthropologists.
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