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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Heresy \Her"e*sy\, n.; pl {Heresies}. [OE. heresie, eresie OF heresie, iresie, F. h['e]r['e]sie, L. haeresis Gr ? a taking, a taking for one's self choosing, a choice, a sect, a heresy, fr ? to take choose.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: heresy n 1: any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position [syn: {unorthodoxy}, {heterodoxy}] [ant: {orthodoxy}] 2: a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion [syn: {unorthodoxy}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Heresy from a Greek word signifying (1) a choice, (2) the opinion chosen, and (3) the sect holding the opinion. In the Acts of the Apostles (5:17; 15:5; 24:5, 14; 26:5) it denotes a sect, without reference to its character. Elsewhere, however, in the New Testament it has a different meaning attached to it Paul ranks heresies" with crimes and seditions (Gal. 5:20). This word also denotes divisions or schisms in the church (1 Cor. 11:19). In Titus 3:10 a "heretical person" is one who follows his own self-willed "questions," and who is to be avoided. Heresies thus came to signify self-chosen doctrines not emanating from God (2 Pet. 2:1).
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