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heretical

/huh-ret-i-kuhl/US // həˈrɛt ɪ kəl //

异端,异端邪说,异端邪教,异教

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.

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Examples

  • Some recruiters told would-be recruits that the state leaders had to be confronted because the state’s loyalty oath contained heretical ideas.

  • The idea of the Treasury borrowing hundreds of billions — or trillions — of dollars by selling long-term securities and in effect betting that interest rates will rise is heretical.

  • This is a heretical view and if it were left at that, I don't think much good would come of it.

  • Either way, the FSA-ISIS feud got worse after the McCain visit with the Northern Storm, which ISIS viewed as a heretical act.

  • Son of God is so awful that it borders on godless—not sinful or heretical, just lacking true Spirit.

  • He makes heretical suggestions about calling a “truce” in the culture wars.

  • Conservatives have written the whole thing off as the heretical pursuit of the Bush administration.

  • In the meantime the university had taken steps to ensure the suppression of heretical books.

  • The Sorbonne declared, in the sixteenth century, that it was heretical to say that heretics ought not to be burned.

  • Thus these various national churches, all called heretical by both Greeks and Latins, continued to exist under Turkish rule.

  • Galling though the Irish laws were, they never went so far as to make the mere holding of heretical opinions criminal.

  • Massachusetts had not yet renounced her designs upon the territories of the heretical Colony.