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hæretical

hæretical is the archaic spelling of heretical.

Meaning of heretical

Adjective

heretical (comparative more heretical, superlative most heretical)

  1. Of or pertaining to heresy or heretics.
    • At least as Auxentius reports him in the covering letter which precedes Ulfila’s confession, he is as vehement in his opposition to what he sees as heretical alternatives to his own form of belief as most other participants in the controversies of the time. Heretics are not Christians but...1996, Maurice Wiles, “[The End of Arianism] Gothic Christianity”, in Archetypal Heresy: Arianism through the Centuries, Oxford, Oxon: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 43
  2. Contrary to mainstream or accepted opinion.
    Synonyms:
    unorthodox

Forms of hæretical

comparativemore hæretical
superlativemost hæretical

Origin of hæretical

From hæretic + -al.

Questions about hæretical

What is hæretical the archaic spelling of?
Hæretical is the archaic spelling of heretical.

Words near hæretical in the dictionary

  1. hæresiarch
  2. hæresie
  3. hæresies
  4. hæresy
  5. hæretic
  6. hæretical
  7. hæretick
  8. hæreticks
  9. hæretics
  10. hæritage
  11. hæritages

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hæretical (page history and authors); heretical (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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