Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a heretical manner; with heresy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an heretical manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a heretical way, or to a heretical extent

Etymologies

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heretical +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • In heretically reductive heavy-metal terms, Megadeth is the Rolling Stones to Metallica's Beatles: more dangerous, more unhinged, more given to self-destruction and a nagging lack of luck.

    Brazen Beats and Metal Mayhem Andy Battaglia 2012

  • The best supporting actress prize to Octavia Spencer, for The Help, will nettle those who find this movie highly sucrose and even suspect, and who felt that, heretically, it might have been more interesting for Melissa McCarthy's out-and-out comedy performance in Bridesmaids to have been rewarded.

    Bafta missed their chance to break The Artist's silence 2012

  • I couldn't in all conscience recommend anyone to spend money on this collection, and I am wondering, heretically, if it is really such a shame that the third volume of the series never appeared.

    January Books 4) Again, Dangerous Visions nwhyte 2008

  • Then, heretically, he declared there had been more freedom under the Shah, suggesting that the current regime was probably not configured the way that God—and the people—wanted.

    Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010

  • In between he attempted to explore the psychic realm, claimed there were extraterrestrial beings on a planet called Altair, and heretically called for a replacement religion for “puny and childish Christianity.”

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • In between he attempted to explore the psychic realm, claimed there were extraterrestrial beings on a planet called Altair, and heretically called for a replacement religion for “puny and childish Christianity.”

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • As it turned out, my childhood fantasies were just slightly less accurate than the theories of the paleontologists at the time who, I discovered decades later, had put the wrong head, that of Camarasaurus, on my beloved Brontosaurus skeleton at the American Museum of Natural History—and later heretically renamed the Bronto altogether, calling it Apatosaurus.

    Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

  • There are, of course, idiotic mystery novels published every month, but they are not what tempt me (an otherwise stalwart fan and critical apostle for the genre) to take Wilson's scorn seriously; rather, it's the elaborately executed twizzler of a tale that unwinds into pointlessness that moves me to heretically entertain the truth of Wilson's famous sneer: "Who Cares Who Murdered Roger Ackroyd?"

    Book review of Elizabeth George's 'This Body of Death' Maureen Corrigan 2010

  • In between he attempted to explore the psychic realm, claimed there were extraterrestrial beings on a planet called Altair, and heretically called for a replacement religion for “puny and childish Christianity.”

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • Let us venerate our Lady unceasingly but let us also not do so heretically.

    Tu gloria Ierusalem! 2009

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