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heretical

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1. heretical - Adjective

2. heretical - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Containing heresy; of the nature of, or characterized by, heresy.

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors? Edith Wharton

With the same bricks one may erect... a palace or a prison.... The same letters are used in Holy Writ and heretical works. Isaac Leib Peretz

The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people. Mark Hatfield

To master this instrument the religious thinker must make a preliminary study of logic, just as the lawyer must study legal reasoning. This is no more heretical in the one case than in the other. And logic must be learned from the ancient masters, regardless of the fact that they were not Muslims. Averroes

No matter how heretical the neo- and post-Freudians imagined they were in theorizing about the "values,” "insecurities,” "goals” of the individual, they were safely following the official ideology of the private and autonomous individual and consumer. Russell Jacoby

This just might do nobody any good. At the end of this discourse a few people may accuse this reporter of fouling his own comfortable nest, and your organization may be accused of having given hospitality to heretical and even dangerous thoughts. Edward R. Murrow

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