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Definition of Heretics

1. heretic [n] - See also: heretic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heretics

Literary usage of Heretics

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 by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1886)
"And therefore it is plain that neither heretics nor schismatics can ... If heretics have baptism, we have it not ; but if we have it, heretics cannot have ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury (1901)
"In the space of fifteen years, he promulgated at least fifteen severe edicts against the heretics ;49 more especially against those who rejected the ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"—heretics. abstraction, the State—that monster of which Bonaparte was soon ... As to heretics, it is well known that directly after the death of Louis XIV ..."

4. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Apostles' creed, Edward Burton (1847)
"can shew more the general opinion of the Catholics and the heretics, and that not only of ... W hereas if it could have then been answered by the heretics, ..."

5. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"F- г reconciliation of heretics, which was ... in a like spirit gained î'T the heretics the (temporary) possession of the 4ue 1 buildings. ..."

6. Readings in European History: A Collection of Extracts from the Sources by James Harvey Robinson (1904)
"One of the heretics, who was reported to be their bishop, had fallen on his back in the fire. The toad took his place on this man's face and in the sight of ..."

7. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"In some cases he refused to surrender heretics to the Pope, or released them from the Inquisition. He gave refuge to fugitive Huguenots, even to those ..."

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