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Definition of Heresies

1. heresy [n] - See also: heresy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heresies

Literary usage of Heresies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1886)
"THE following are the contents of the first book of The Refutation of au heresies.1 We propose to furnish an account of the tenets of natural philosophers, ..."

2. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1885)
"In the next place, since he reproaches us with the existence of heresies in ... In reply to which, we say that heresies of different kinds have never ..."

3. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"c Here he distinctly read a schedule containing his heresies, ... detesting " and abhorring all and every such my said heresies, " blasphemies, ..."

4. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1903)
"Who also are the Antichrists, both now and evermore, but the men wbo rebel against Christ ?3 heresies, at the present time, will no less rend the church by ..."

5. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"The heresies of the previous period were mainly of a syncretic kind (§ 26). ... Of syn- cratic heresies only sporadic traces from the previous period are ..."

6. Manual of Universal Church History by Johannes Baptist Alzog, Francis Joseph Pabisch, Thomas Sebastian Byrne (1889)
"As Christ had given to the Church the assurance of His protection against the powers of evil, the Apostles declared that the existence ol heresies, ..."

7. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1902)
"The Waldensian and the Hussite heresies were the two which occupied him most. ... Hist, sur les heresies en Dauphine, 38 seq. (Valence, 1890). ..."

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