Usually means: Belief contrary to orthodox doctrine.
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  1. heresy: Merriam-Webster
  2. heresy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heresy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heresy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heresy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Heresy, heresy: Wordnik
  7. heresy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. heresy: Wiktionary
  9. heresy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. heresy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. heresy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. heresy: Dictionary.com
  13. heresy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. heresy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Heresy (Lustmord album), Heresy (Paradox album), Heresy (Rush song), Heresy (band), Heresy (disambiguation), Heresy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Heresy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. heresy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. heresy: Rhymezone
  19. heresy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. heresy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. heresy: FreeDictionary.org
  22. heresy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. heresy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. heresy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. heresy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HERESY: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Heresy: Legal dictionary

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  1. heresy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Heresy: Easton Bible
  2. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Heresy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (religion) A doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance or conflict with established religious beliefs.
noun:  (by extension) A controversial or unorthodox opinion held by a member of a group, as in politics, philosophy or science.

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