orthodoxy

American  

[awr-thuh-dok-see] / ˈɔr θəˌdɒk si /

noun

plural

orthodoxies

1. orthodox belief or practice.

2. orthodox character.

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Other Word Forms

• antiorthodoxy noun
• hyperorthodoxy noun
• pro-orthodoxy adjective
• unorthodoxy noun

Etymology

Origin of orthodoxy

1620–30; < Late Latin orthodoxia < Greek orthodoxía right opinion, equivalent to orthódox ( os ) ( orthodox ) + -ia -y ³

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Example Sentences

The University of Washington appears to have enshrined an orthodoxy about the illegitimacy of its own existence.

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David Hume, Adam Ferguson, William Robertson, Smith and their contemporaries weren’t riding a wave of orthodoxy but quietly turning a Calvinist culture into a laboratory for skepticism, commerce and civil society.

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It’s the kind of number that, if I were buying, might make me forgive the Toyota’s normie orthodoxy, the penny-pinched interior and any occasional bovine noises under throttle.

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Most dramatically, the Catholicism animated by an accurate reading of Vatican II is found in sub-Saharan Africa, where orthodoxy is creating what will soon be the demographic center of the church.

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There are no political, religious or secularist orthodoxies or litmus tests.

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Related Words

• belief
• doctrine
• tradition