hæresy

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)¹ IPA^(key): /ˈhɛɹəsi/
• (Received Pronunciation)² IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪɹəsi/

Noun

hæresy (plural hæresies)

1. (archaic or pedantic) Alternative spelling of heresy
   • c. 1637, Jeremy Taylor, On the Reverence due to the Altar:

     And Epiphanius^e 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.