Heresy

New opinions
Divers and dangerous, which are heresies,
And, not reformed, may prove pernicious. Shak.

After the study of philosophy began in Greece, and the philosophers, disagreeing amongst themselves, had started many questions . . . because every man took what opinion he pleased, each several opinion was called a heresy; which signified no more than a private opinion, without reference to truth or falsehood. Hobbes.

Doubts 'mongst divines, and difference of texts,
From whence arise diversity of sects,
And hateful heresies by God abhor'd. Spenser.

Deluded people! that do not consider that the greatest heresy in the world is a wicked life. Tillotson.

A second offense is that of heresy, which consists not in a total denial of Christianity, but of some its essential doctrines, publicly and obstinately avowed. Blackstone.

* "When I call dueling, and similar aberrations of honor, a moral heresy, I refer to the force of the Greek (?), as signifying a principle or opinion taken up by the will for the will's sake, as a proof or pledge to itself of its own power of self- determination, independent of all other motives." Coleridge.