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Heretic vs Maverick - What's the difference?

heretic | maverick |

As nouns the difference between heretic and maverick

is that heretic is someone who, in the opinion of others, believes contrary to the fundamental tenets of a religion he claims to belong to while maverick is an unbranded range animal.

As adjectives the difference between heretic and maverick

is that heretic is heretical; of or pertaining to heresy or heretics while maverick is showing independence in thoughts or actions.

heretic

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic), (obsolete), heretick (obsolete), (l) (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who, in the opinion of others, believes contrary to the fundamental tenets of a religion he claims to belong to.
  • * '>citation
    • 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.

    Synonyms

    * apostate * withersake

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Heretical]]; of or pertaining to heresy or [[#Noun, heretics.

    • Antonyms

    * orthodox

    Related terms

    * heresy * heretical

    Anagrams

    * ----

    maverick

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing independence in thoughts or actions.
    • He made a maverick decision.
    He is a maverick person.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An unbranded range animal.
  • * Around 1900 , O Henry,
    • Long Bill was a graduate of the camp and trail. Luck and thrift, a cool head, and a telescopic eye for mavericks had raised him from cowboy to be a cowman.
  • One who does not abide by rules.
  • One who creates or uses unconventional and/or controversial ideas or practices.
    • Florence Nightingale would have been perceived as a maverick during her early career, because she was prioritizing hygiene when everybody else involved in healthcare was focused on other things, such as surgery and pills.'' (Source: Edzard Ernst and Simon Singh, ''Trick or Treatment , 2008, p. 36-37.)
  • (poker slang) A queen and a jack as a starting hand in

    • Synonyms

    * (one who does not abide by rules) individualist, lone gunman, nonconformist, rebel

    See also

    *

    References

    * Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 English eponyms