Crossword-Solution: HERETIC 7 letters, 116 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Heretic	n.	One who holds to a heresy; one who believes some doctrine contrary to the established faith or prevailing religion.
Heretic	n.	One who having made a profession of Christian belief, deliberately and pertinaciously refuses to believe one or more of the articles of faith "determined by the authority of the universal church."

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
HERETIC	anagram	ERICTHE, ETHERIC, TECHIER, TEICHER

We have 116 clues for the answer “HERETIC”

Clue	Answers
Abelard, e.g.	1 answer
Akhenaten, the 'Pharaoh'	1 answer
Auto-da-fé victim	1 answer
Candidate for excommunication	1 answer
Church's foe	1 answer
Dissenter on dogma.	1 answer
Doctrine rejecter	1 answer
Dogma disputer	1 answer
Enemy of orthodoxy.	1 answer
Excommunication candidate	1 answer
Freethinker, perhaps	1 answer
Galileo, for one, according to the Inquisition	1 answer
Galileo, to Pope Urban VIII	1 answer
Galileo, to some	1 answer
HOLDER of unorthodox opinion in matter of religion	1 answer
Inquisitor's quarry	1 answer
Jan Hus, to some: 1412	1 answer
Joan of Arc, allegedly	1 answer
John Huss was burned as one.	1 answer
Luther was one	1 answer
Martin Luther, according to Pope Leo X	1 answer
Martin Luther, to Pope Leo X	1 answer
ONE holding an unorthodox opinion in matter of religion	1 answer
One at risk of excommunication	1 answer
One seriously straying from the flock?	1 answer
One who chooses his own belief.	1 answer
Opponent of prevalent doctrine.	1 answer
Orthodoxy opponent	1 answer
PERSON holding an unorthodox opinion in matter of religion	1 answer
Person of unorthodox beliefs	1 answer
Person who defies belief?	1 answer
Relative of an apostate	1 answer
Religious Dissenter	1 answer
Religious dissident	1 answer
Religious nonconformist	1 answer
Rogue church member	1 answer
Torquemada victim	1 answer
Unorthodox believer	1 answer
Unorthodox one	1 answer
Unorthodox thinker	1 answer
Upholder of a heresy	1 answer
dissenter Religious	1 answer
doubter Doctrine	1 answer
person who holds unorthodox opinions	1 answer
religious deviate	1 answer
schismatist	1 answer
Free-thinker	1 answer
Rebel with a cause?	2 answers
recusant	2 answers
Inquisition victim	2 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EETRA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with HERETIC (5)

Sometimes I feel like the sane person in a community of the mad; sometimes I feel like the one blind man where all others see; the one groping savage in the college of the learned, and always, during service, I feel like a heretic in heaven.

What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

And some people like the hats; but about the hats I was always a heretic; I always got my hats in Paris.

An International Episode Henry James 2008

His heart warms to him when he can bring forward some example of cruelty or meanness, and he exults like an inquisitor at the _auto da fé_ of an heretic when with some forgotten story he can confound the filial piety of the Rev.

The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham 1995

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

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995

Fray Ignatius, we will beg you to leave us to-night to ourselves.” “Your mother’s sin, in marrying a heretic, has now found her out.

Remember the Alamo Amelia E. Barr 2008

Quotes with HERETIC (3)

He drew a circle that shut me out-Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem "Outwitted

Edwin Markham

The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.

Cormac McCarthy

The busybody (banned as sexist, demeaning to older women) who lives next door called my daughter a tomboy (banned as sexist) when she climbed the jungle (banned; replaced with "rain forest") gym. Then she had the nerve to call her an egghead and a bookworm (both banned as offensive; replaced with "intellectual") because she read fairy (banned because suggests homosexuality; replace with "elf") tales. I'm tired of the Language Police turning a deaf ear (banned as handicapism) …

Denise Duhamel

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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 59 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).