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The pope defending the church against the heretics of the Reformation. Any religious doctrine opposed to the orthodox belief of the time may be defined as heresy.

Any doctrine opposed to orthodox belief, especially in religion. Those holding ideas considered heretical by the Christian church have included Gnostics, Arians, Pelagians, Montanists, Albigenses, Waldenses, Lollards, and Anabaptists.



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The newspapers will purge his heresy in the oblivion of silence.
Their religion was of a simple, semi-pagan kind, but there was no heresy in it,--if heresy properly means choice,--for they didn't know there was any other religion, except that of chapel-goers, which appeared to run in families, like asthma.
Horizontalist heresy was finally extinguished by Xanobus, the
 
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