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Definition of heretic noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

heretic

noun
 
/ˈherətɪk/
 
/ˈherətɪk/
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  1. a person who believes in or practises religious heresyTopics Religion and festivalsc2
    Word 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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