HERESY in a Sentence
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12 example sentences for HERESY, such as:
1. employed to designate the Huguenot heresy.
2. They were commanded to extirpate magic and heresy.
3. It might be considered heresy to suggest such a notion.
4. At this defiant heresy, Mammy's brow lowered with indignation.
5. However, life would be pleasanter if Rhett would recant his heresies.
2. They were commanded to extirpate magic and heresy.
3. It might be considered heresy to suggest such a notion.
4. At this defiant heresy, Mammy's brow lowered with indignation.
5. However, life would be pleasanter if Rhett would recant his heresies.
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Meanings and Examples of HERESY
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heresy
n. opinion contrary to popular belief; opinion contrary to accepted religion
Classic Sentence:
1 At this defiant heresy, Mammy's brow lowered with indignation.
2 But at this moment, heresy though it was, she could not help thinking the Yankees were right on this one matter, even if wrong in all others.
3 They were commanded to extirpate magic and heresy.
4 employed to designate the Huguenot heresy.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
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5 However, life would be pleasanter if Rhett would recant his heresies.
6 It is still combating the recent heresies of Voltaire, Darwin, and Robert Ingersoll.
7 KENNICOTT was not so inhumanly patient that he could continue to forgive Carol's heresies, to woo her as he had on the venture to California.
8 This ancient opponent seemed likely to be her most intimate friend, for Vida Sherwin, though she was cordial, stood back and watched for imported heresies.
9 I never saw a man so distressed as you were by my will; unless it were that hide-bound pedant, Lanyon, at what he called my scientific heresies.
Example Sentence:
1 Radical remarks like this amount to heresy for most members of the Republican party.
2 It might be considered heresy to suggest such a notion.
3 Galileo's assertion that the earth moved around the sun directly contradicted the religious teachings of his day; as a result, he was tried for heresy.