Founder or leader of a heretical movement.
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Examples for "heresiarch "
Examples for "heresiarch "
1 A celebrated heresiarch admired them in this manner, in the last century.
2 For the rest, the heresiarch had a mighty flow of vituperative speech.
3 Is the heresiarch a less pernicious member of society than the murderer?
4 That heresiarch , being banished from his see, retired to his monastery in Antioch.
5 Luther was hardly a heresiarch for England, though a hobby for Henry VIII.
1 Rome did not brand him as an arch-heretic , but only warned the faithful to read him with caution.
2 The close-communion clergyman handles the arch-heretic as tenderly as if he were the nursing mother of a new infant Messiah.
3 Rousseau was its arch-heretic .
4 The good nuns objected a little to Voltaire at first, but seem to have been finally reconciled to the visits of the arch-heretic .
5 Their very name, he added, proved that they were heretics; a cross surmounted by a rose being the heraldic device of the arch-heretic Luther.
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