heretic
noun/ˈherətɪk/
/ˈherətɪk/
- a person who believes in or practises religious heresyTopics Religion and festivalsc2Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French heretique, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek hairetikos ‘able to choose’ (in ecclesiastical Greek, ‘heretical’), from haireomai ‘choose’.
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