heterodox

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From Ancient Greek ἑτερόδοξος (heteródoxos), from ἕτερος (héteros, “other, another, different”) + δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”).

His lectures were deemed still more heterodox than that sermon. — Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Examining these heterodox pronouncements a little more closely, however, we may possibly perceive their truth. — Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Moreover, of the African divines, the first in order of time, and not the least influential, is the strong-minded and heterodox Tertullian. — Apologia pro vita sua : $b being a history of his religious opinions, John Henry Newman

dissident, heretical

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