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.

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 Meanings and Examples of HERESY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  They were commanded to extirpate magic and heresy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  employed to designate the Huguenot heresy.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII(*) — CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH PRINCES SH...
5  However, life would be pleasanter if Rhett would recant his heresies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  It is still combating the recent heresies of Voltaire, Darwin, and Robert Ingersoll.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
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.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
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.