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hereticating

hereticating is the present participle and gerund of hereticate.

Meaning of hereticate

Verb

hereticate (third-person singular simple present hereticates, present participle hereticating, simple past and past participle hereticated)

  1. (transitive) To denounce as heresy or a heretic.
    • And let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to hereticate me.1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English

Questions about hereticating

What is hereticating the present participle and gerund of?
Hereticating is the present participle and gerund of hereticate.

Words near hereticating in the dictionary

  1. hereticaster
  2. hereticasters
  3. hereticate
  4. hereticated
  5. hereticates
  6. hereticating
  7. heretication
  8. heretications
  9. hereticator
  10. hereticators
  11. hereticide

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hereticating (page history and authors); hereticate (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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