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 First Amendment, he concludes, “stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“But the First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country.”

From Salon

Both countries poured billions of dollars into propagating their respective versions of Islamic orthodoxy around the world.

From The Wall Street Journal

What they found upended decades of economic orthodoxy: After New Jersey’s minimum wage rose, fast-food employment actually increased relative to levels seen in Pennsylvania.

From The Wall Street Journal

The law is “a legal capstone meant to send a signal throughout the system” about the new orthodoxy on ethnic policy, said James Leibold, a professor at Australia’s La Trobe University.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• belief
• doctrine
• tradition