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Heresy vs Jezebel - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between heresy and jezebel

is that heresy is (religion) a doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance with established religious beliefs, especially dissension from roman catholic dogma while jezebel is .

heresy

English

(wikipedia heresy)

Alternative forms

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Noun

(heresies)
  • (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
    • 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.
  • A controversial or unorthodox opinion held by a member of a group, as in politics, philosophy or science.

    • Related terms

    * heresiarch * heretic * heretical

    See also

    * schism * Arianism * monophysism * Nestorianism * Pelagianism

    References

    jezebel

    English

    (wikipedia Jezebel)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (biblical character) The Phoenician princess and Queen of Ancient Israel who appears in the Old Testament (1 Kings). She incited heresy and lured the Jews away from their God and back to idols. Jezebel was finally deposed by Jehu, who confronted her and had her thrown from the palace window to the streets, where her body was eaten by wild dogs.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter XI , passage=“I know if anyone called me a carrot-topped Jezebel', umbrage is the first thing I'd take. Who was ' Jezebel , by the way? The name seems familiar, but I can't place her.” “A character in the Old Testament, sir. A queen of Israel.” “Of course, yes. Be forgetting my own name next. Eaten by dogs, wasn't she?” “Yes, sir.” “Can't have been pleasant for her.” “No, sir.” “Still, that's the way the ball rolls.”}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pejorative) An evil, scheming or shameless woman; an immoral woman.
    • She’s an absolute Jezebel !
  • * 1960: (, (Jeeves in the Offing) , chapter X)
    • I accused her in set terms of giving me the heave-ho in order that she could mercenarily marry a richer man. I called her a carrot-topped Jezebel whom I was thankful to have got out of my hair.