different between religion vs heretic

English

Alternative forms

• Religion

Etymology

From Middle English religioun, from Old French religion, from Latin religi? (“scrupulousness, pious misgivings, superstition, conscientiousness, sanctity, an object of veneration, cult-observance, reverence”). Most likely from the Indo-European root *h?leg with the meanings preserved in Latin d?ligere and legere (“to read repeatedly”, “to have something solely in mind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l?d??n/
• Rhymes: -?d??n

Noun

religion (countable and uncountable, plural religions)

1. (uncountable) Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.

   Synonym: faith

   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:

     Most books on the philosophy of religion try to begin with a precise definition of what its essence consists of. ... I shall not be pedantic enough to enumerate any of them to you now. Meanwhile the very fact that they are so many and so different from one another is enough to prove that the word “religion” cannot stand for any single principle or essence, but is rather a collective name.
2. (countable) A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.

   Synonym: faith

   Hypernym: belief system
3. (uncountable) The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.

4. (uncountable, informal) Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.

   Synonym: (pejorative) superstition

5. (countable) Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
6. (uncountable, obsolete) Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness. [16th-17th c.]

Usage notes

• Some prefer a definition of religion that includes only theistic groups, viewing non-theistic religions as merely philosophical systems.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:religion

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

religion (third-person singular simple present religions, present participle religioning, simple past and past participle religioned)

1. Engage in religious practice.
2. Indoctrinate into a specific religion.
   • 1890, John R. Kelso, Deity analyzed: In six lectures - Page 37

     To men whose minds are thus religioned, tied back to gods that never advance, there can never be any such word as progress
3. To make sacred or symbolic; sanctify.
   • 2011, Andrew O'Shea, Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a 'Post-Critical' Climate, p 116

     The ideas expressed above challenge us to continuously rupture and interrupt racialized, classed, gendered, religioned and sexualized norms that inhere between and within institutions, understandings of bodies and our Selves.

See also

• Appendix:Religions

References

• religion at OneLook Dictionary Search
• religion in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• religion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• religion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• ligroine, reoiling

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??li??jo?n]

Noun

religion c (singular definite religionen, plural indefinite religioner)

1. religion

Declension

Further reading

• “religion” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “religion” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Esperanto

Noun

religion

1. accusative singular of religio

French

Etymology

From Middle French religion, from Old French religion, borrowed from Latin religio, religionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.li.?j??/
• Hyphenation: re?li?gion

Noun

religion f (plural religions)

1. religion

Synonyms

• foi
• culte
• dévotion

Derived terms

See also

• religieux
• religieuse
• religiosité

Further reading

• “religion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

religion (plural religiones)

1. religion (system of belief, customs, etc.)

Ladin

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin religio, religionem.

Noun

religion m (plural [please provide])

1. religion

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French religion.

Noun

religion f (plural religions)

1. religion

Descendants

• French: religion

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

religion m (definite singular religionen, indefinite plural religioner, definite plural religionene)

1. religion

Synonyms

• tro

Derived terms

• religionsfrihet
• statsreligion

Related terms

• religiøs

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

religion m (definite singular religionen, indefinite plural religionar, definite plural religionane)

1. religion

Derived terms

• statsreligion

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin religi?.

Noun

religion f (oblique plural religions, nominative singular religion, nominative plural religions)

1. religion

Related terms

• religieus

Descendants

• ? English: religion
• French: religion
• Norman: r'ligion
• ? Middle Dutch: religie
  • Dutch: religie
    • ? Indonesian: religi

Papiamentu

Noun

religion

1. religion

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reli?d??u?/

Noun

religion f

1. religion

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?l??ju?n/

Noun

religion c

1. religion

Declension

Related terms

• religionsfrihet
• religionskunskap
• religionslärare
• religionsvetare
• religiös

See also

• ateism
• gud
• konventikel
• kyrklig
• monoteism
• relegera
• religare
• religio
• teologi
• tro

English

Alternative forms

• hæretic (archaic), hæretick (obsolete), heretick (obsolete), heretike (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French eretique, from Medieval Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin haereticus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (hairetikós, “able to choose, factious”), itself from Ancient Greek ????? (hairé?, “I choose”)

Pronunciation

• (noun): (US) IPA^(key): /?h???t?k/

Noun

heretic (plural heretics)

1. Someone who believes contrary to the fundamental tenets of a religion they claim to belong to.

   • In the framework of traditional medical ethics, the patient
     deserves humane attention only insofar as he is potentially
     healthy and is willing to be healthy—just as in the framework
     of traditional Christian ethics, the heretic deserved humane
     attention only insofar as he was potentially a true believer and
     was willing to become one. In the one case, people are
     accepted as human beings only because they might be healthy
     citizens; in the other, only because they might be faithful
     Christians. In short, neither was heresy formerly, nor is sick-
     ness now, given the kind of humane recognition which, from
     the point of view of an ethic of respect and tolerance, they
     deserve.

2. Someone who does not conform to generally accepted beliefs or practices

Synonyms

• apostate
• dissident
• nonconformist
• sectarian
• separatist
• withersake

Translations

Adjective

heretic (comparative more heretic, superlative most heretic)

1. (archaic) Heretical; of or pertaining to heresy or heretics.

Antonyms

• orthodox

Translations

Related terms

• heresy
• heretical

Anagrams

• chierte, erethic, etheric, heteric, techier

Scots

Etymology

See heresy.

Noun

heretic (plural heretics)

1. heretic
2. (literary style) A poet who claims to have no religion, or to disdain one.

   He's as puir as the heretic baird.