Heretic (noun)
he-re-tik
A person believing in or practising religious heresy, a crime against the church.
A person holding an opinion at odds with what is generally accepted.
Middle English from Old French heretique, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek hairetikos ‘able to choose’ (in ecclesiastical Greek, ‘heretical’), from haireomai ‘choose’.
Example sentences
“It’s understandable we have heretics reacting against the orthodoxy.”
