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Word: Heretic
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
Middle English: from Old French heretique, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek hairetikos ‘able to choose’ (in ecclesiastical Greek, ‘heretical’), from haireomai ‘choose’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈhɛrɪtɪk
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a person believing in or practising religious heresy.
Short Definition:person believing in or practising religious heresy
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