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hæretick

hæretick is the obsolete form of heretic.

Meaning of heretic

Noun

heretic (plural heretics)

  1. Someone whose beliefs are contrary to the fundamental tenets of a religion they claim to belong to.
    • He semeth a sysmatyke
      Or els an heretike,
      For fayth in hym is faynte.c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 17–19
  2. (broadly) Someone who does not conform to generally accepted beliefs or practices.

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Forms of hæretick

pluralhæreticks

Questions about hæretick

What is hæretick the obsolete form of?
Hæretick is the obsolete form of heretic.

Words near hæretick in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hæretick (page history and authors); heretic (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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