Crossword-Solution: HERESY 6 letters, 152 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Heresy	n.	An opinion held in opposition to the established or commonly received doctrine, and tending to promote a division or party, as in politics, literature, philosophy, etc.; -- usually, but not necessarily, said in reproach.
Heresy	n.	Religious opinion opposed to the authorized doctrinal standards of any particular church, especially when tending to promote schism or separation; lack of orthodox or sound belief; rejection of, or erroneous belief in regard to, some fundamental religious doctrine or truth; heterodoxy.
Heresy	n.	An offense against Christianity, consisting in a denial of some essential doctrine, which denial is publicly avowed, and obstinately maintained.

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HERESY	anagram	HERSEY

We have 152 clues for the answer “HERESY”

Clue	Answers
"The lifeblood of religions," according to André Suarès	1 answer
A brief contrary to a church doctrine	1 answer
Accusation against Joan of Arc	1 answer
Arianism, to Christianity	1 answer
Belief opposed to the norm	1 answer
Cause for burning at the stake	1 answer
Cause of Cranmer's downfall, 1556.	1 answer
Cause of Cranmer's execution.	1 answer
Charge against Galileo	1 answer
Charge of religious unorthodoxy	1 answer
Contrary opinions.	1 answer
Contrary religious opinion	1 answer
Controversial opinion	1 answer
Council of Trent subject	1 answer
Crime Galileo was charged with	1 answer
Crime that Galileo was charged with	1 answer
Crime that Joan of Arc was charged with	1 answer
Dangerous pronouncements	1 answer
Diet of Worms concern	1 answer
Dissension from dogma	1 answer
Dissenting belief	1 answer
Dissenting opinion to an accepted doctrine.	1 answer
Dissenting religious belief	1 answer
Dissenting view	1 answer
Doctrinal dissension	1 answer
Doctrinal rejection	1 answer
Ecclesiastical crime	1 answer
Ecumenical council concern	1 answer
Excommunication provocation	1 answer
False doctrine.	1 answer
Galileo's "crime"	1 answer
Grounds for excommunication	1 answer
Holdings in fundamental disagreement with the status quo	1 answer
Inquisition charge	1 answer
Inquisition concern	1 answer
Inquisition infraction	1 answer
Inquisition's bane	1 answer
Inquisitor's charge	1 answer
Inquistion target	1 answer
It may make a church cross	1 answer
It's not at all dogmatic	1 answer
Jan Hus's supposed crime	1 answer
Joan of Arc's "crime"	1 answer
Joan of Arc's alleged crime	1 answer
Joan of Arc's offense	1 answer
Luther's crime, per the Diet of Worms	1 answer
Marcion's opinions, e.g.	1 answer
Martin Luther's crime	1 answer
Nicene Council concern	1 answer
Nonconforming opinion	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ARTEE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with HERESY (5)

Among the lookers-on there was the same expression in all quarters of the court; insomuch, that a great majority of the foreheads there, might have been mirrors reflecting the witness, when the Judge looked up from his notes to glare at that tremendous heresy about George Washington.

A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994

The prince, who is very devout, and who had her heresy sorely on his conscience, was thrown into an ecstasy.

Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006

Bulgarus, a Bulgarian, and also a heretic; because the inhabitants of Bulgaria were infected with heresy.

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995

And we especially condemn and in God's name execrate those who not only omit both forms but also quite autocratically [tyrannically] prohibit, condemn, and blaspheme them as heresy, and so exalt themselves against and above Christ, our Lord and God [opposing and placing themselves ahead of Christ], etc.

The Smalcald Articles Martin Luther 1995

The club, when fresh from the “Encyclopaedia Britannica,” the “Reader’s Handbook” or Smith’s “Classical Dictionary,” could deal confidently with any subject; but when taken unawares it had been known to define agnosticism as a heresy of the Early Church and Professor Froude as a distinguished histologist; and such minor members as Mrs.

The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 2 (of 10) Edith Wharton 1995

Quotes with HERESY (3)

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

Xas sighed. "But I don't want to talk about God. Why do I? Sometimes I feel God is all over me like a pollen and I go about pollinating things with God." Sobran opened his eyes and Xas smiled at him. Soban said, "I did think that you talked about God to persuade me you weren't evil. But I've decided that, for you, everything is somehow to the glory of God, whether you like it or not.""I feel that, yes. My imagination was first formed in God's glory. But I think God didn't mak…

Elizabeth Knox The Vintner's Luck

Sin, blasphemy, heresy — all these are primitive ideas created by primitive creatures, unworthy of the title “human”.

Abhijit Naskar Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 116 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).