Heretic vs Penitent - What's the difference?
heretic | penitent |
Someone who, in the opinion of others, believes contrary to the fundamental tenets of a religion he claims to belong to.
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Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life.
* 1838 , , (The Anatomy of Melancholy) , B. Blake, p.730,
* Milton
Doing penance.
One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his or her transgressions.
One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
* 1837 , William Russell, The History of Modern Europe: with an Account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Longman, Rees, & Co., page 20,
One under the direction of a confessor.
As adjectives the difference between heretic and penitent
is that heretic is heretical while penitent is penitent.As a noun penitent is
penitent.heretic
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Alternative forms
* (archaic), (obsolete), heretick (obsolete), (l) (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- 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 * withersakeAntonyms
* orthodoxAnagrams
* ----penitent
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic) * (qualifier)Adjective
(en adjective)- If thou be penitent and grieved, or desirous to be so, these heinous sins shall not be laid to thy charge.
- Be penitent , and for thy fault contrite.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- Wamba, who defeated the Saracens in an attempt upon Spain, was deprived of the crown, because he had been clothed in the habit of a penitent , while labouring under the influence of poison, administered by the ambitious Erviga!
