Dispute vs Heresy - What's the difference?
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An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.
Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.
* Milton
Contest; struggle; quarrel.
To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.
To oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of.
* Bancroft
To strive or contend about; to contest.
* Prescott
(obsolete) To struggle against; to resist.
* Shakespeare
(religion) A doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance with established religious beliefs, especially dissension from Roman Catholic dogma.
* 1968 , History of Western Civilization, edited by Heyes, Baldwin & Cole, p.47. Macmillan. Library of Congress 67–13596
A controversial or unorthodox opinion held by a member of a group, as in politics, philosophy or science.
As a verb dispute
is .As a noun heresy is
(religion) a doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance with established religious beliefs, especially dissension from roman catholic dogma.dispute
English
(wikipedia dispute)Noun
(en noun)- Addicted more / To contemplation and profound dispute .
- (Defoe)
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(disput)- Some residents disputed the proposal, saying it was based more on emotion than fact.
- to dispute assertions or arguments
- to seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance
- to dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards
- Dispute it [grief] like a man.
Derived terms
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English
(wikipedia heresy)Alternative forms
*Noun
(heresies)- Heresy meant deliberate departure from the accepted doctrines of the church. It was intellectual and spiritual dissent and concerned the beliefs of Christianity, not the morals of its adherents.