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heresy
  • n  any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position
  • n  a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion
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heretic
  • n  a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church
  • n  a person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion)
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heritage
  • n  practices that are handed down from the past by tradition
    a heritage of freedom
  • n  any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors
    the world's heritage of knowledge
  • n  that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
  • n  hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
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heritiera
  • n  small genus of timber trees of eastern Asia, Australasia and tropical Africa that form large buttresses
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heritiera littoralis
  • n  small tree of coastal regions of Old World tropics whose leaves are silvery beneath
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heritiera macrophylla
  • n  large evergreen tree of India and Burma whose leaves are silvery beneath
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heritor
  • n  a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another
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herm
  • n  a statue consisting of a squared stone pillar with a carved head (usually a bearded Hermes) on top; used in ancient Greece as a boundary marker or signpost
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herman
  • n  United States jazz musician and bandleader (1913-1987)
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herman hollerith
  • n  United States inventor who invented a system for recording alphanumeric information on punched cards (1860-1929)
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herman melville
  • n  United States writer of novels and short stories (1819-1891)
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