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hæresy (plural hæresies)
- (archaic or pedantic) Alternative spelling of heresy
c. 1637, Jeremy Taylor, On the Reverence due to the Altar:And Epiphaniuse reports it to be a hæresy of the Osseni, that they sayd it was no sin etiamsi simulachra ipsos adorare contingat persequutionis tempore instante, si solum in Conscientiâ non adorent; to adore with their bodyes though their soules detested it was Idolatry, and to deny it was hæresy.