Usually means: Belief contrary to orthodox doctrine.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word heresy:

General (35 matching dictionaries)
  1. heresy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. heresy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heresy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heresy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heresy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Heresy, heresy: Wordnik
  7. heresy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. heresy: Wiktionary
  9. heresy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. heresy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. heresy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. heresy: Dictionary.com
  13. heresy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. heresy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Heresy (Lustmord album), Heresy (Paradox album), Heresy (Rush song), Heresy (band), Heresy (disambiguation), Heresy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Heresy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. heresy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. heresy: Rhymezone
  19. heresy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. heresy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. heresy: Free Dictionary
  22. heresy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. heresy: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. heresy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. heresy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HERESY: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Heresy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heresy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Heresy: Easton Bible
  2. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Heresy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See heresies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (religion) a doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance or conflict with established religious beliefs
noun:  (by extension) A controversial or unorthodox opinion held by a member of a group, as in politics, philosophy or science.

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