Antonyms for heretical


Grammar : Adj
Spell : huh-ret-i-kuhl
Phonetic Transcription : həˈrɛt ɪ kəl


Definition of heretical

Origin :
  • early 15c., from Middle French eretical and directly from Medieval Latin haereticalis, from haereticus (see heretic).
  • adj unorthodox
Example sentences :
  • No book could be so heretical but he would read it, and read it carefully.
  • Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore
  • He had told the zealots of the town of the new-comer's heretical mode of thinking.
  • Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
  • After due examination it was condemned as heretical in 1615.
  • Extract from : « Great Astronomers » by R. S. Ball
  • But of all the heretical bodies in Bohemia the most influential were the Waldenses.
  • Extract from : « History of the Moravian Church » by J. E. Hutton
  • Heretical worship was of a most licentious as well as disgusting kind.
  • Extract from : « The Superstitions of Witchcraft » by Howard Williams
  • This put the observantines in the same position as other heretical sects.
  • Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
  • So the unbelievers decided that Noah's preaching was wicked and heretical.
  • Extract from : « Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II » by Martin Luther
  • It is with shame that I confess to have asked myself a question so heretical.
  • Extract from : « The Island Pharisees » by John Galsworthy
  • She was compelled to leave Geneva because her doctrines were declared to be heretical.
  • Extract from : « Immortal Memories » by Clement Shorter
  • It was unprecedented, and yet evidently only a result of the heretical abuses.
  • Extract from : « Barbara Blomberg, Complete » by Georg Ebers

Synonyms for heretical

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