heretics

We have found lemma(root) word of heretics : heretic.

Definitions


[ˈhɛrɪtɪk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person believing in or practising religious heresy
(e.g: the Vatican branded Galileo a heretic for saying the Earth revolved around the sun)


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Origin:
Middle English: from Old French heretique, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek hairetikos ‘able to choose’ (in ecclesiastical Greek, ‘heretical’), from haireomai ‘choose’




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