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Definition of orthodoxy in English: orthodoxynounPlural orthodoxies ˈɔːθədɒksiˈɔrθəˌdɑksi mass noun1Authorized or generally accepted theory, doctrine, or practice. count noun he challenged many of the established orthodoxies Example sentencesExamples - She knows all about political correctness and challenging prevailing orthodoxy.
- New doctrinal and linguistic orthodoxies were put in place to institutionalize the gains made by revisionists in the name of pluralism and inclusivity.
- His ideas themselves went against the dirigiste orthodoxies of his age and discipline, and earned him much disdain and opprobrium.
- The practice of politics is based on rigid orthodoxies that defy empirical testing.
- To this extent the Lib Dem thinking on fiscal policy is firmly rooted in the orthodoxies of the 1970s.
- Holism was the unquestioned orthodoxy of the Western tradition of practising medicine and investigating nature for the two millennia before the nineteenth century.
- The Kharijites tolerated no slight deviance from their orthodoxies and ideas of morality.
- Rosenberg builds on Marx's work in order both to criticize prevailing orthodoxies in international relations theory and to develop an alternative theoretical position.
- The cover tells us a lot about the book itself, particularly its aim which is to give designers a kick-start, an infusion of new ideas or challenge existing orthodoxies about Web design.
- Rejecting orthodoxies and abstract theories alike, the neoconservatives tended to operate in close proximity to ongoing events.
- The orthodoxies of fiscal rectitude and monetary restraint are no more.
- Indeed, challenging public orthodoxies about the past in a constructive and sympathetic way is one of the most valuable contributions that the historian can make in the museum sector.
- So in the end, the internet gives us the opportunity to make more nuanced expressions of our political worldview, which makes obsolete old orthodoxies and old definitions of left and right.
- Socrates believed in the intrinsic value of asking honest questions and challenging orthodoxy.
- He was distinctly nervous of orthodoxies and almost physically pained by rigid doctrinal systems.
- The apparent orthodoxy of forbidding all orthodoxies is a philosophical puzzle in liberalism since John Locke.
- One need not subscribe to orthodoxies - proper beliefs-in order to pray to God.
- It is true that past scientific orthodoxies have themselves inspired policies that hindsight reveals to be seriously flawed.
- The more basic problem lies in the undoubted decline, for a significant minority, of assent to previously popular orthodoxies and ideologies.
- No-one should argue against teaching future citizens to think critically and to subject orthodoxies and truisms to rigorous examination.
- He was a powerful figure in the Vatican and a guardian of orthodoxy for a very conservative pope.
- Radical innovators challenge the dogmas and the orthodoxies of the incumbents.
- Those who challenge widely accepted orthodoxies, believing them to rest on sand, will need to ensure that their own challenges have secure foundations.
- Emerson's worldview, repelled by orthodoxies, was open-ended, evolving, unspecified, rejecting all incarnations as strictly pro tern.
Synonyms doctrine, belief, conviction, creed, dogma, credo, theory, view, idea, tenet, teaching, practice, received wisdom, article of faith - 1.1 The quality of conforming to orthodox theories, doctrines, or practices.
writings of unimpeachable orthodoxy Example sentencesExamples - Either they could choose to follow the latest will of Parliament, thereby preserving some remnant of traditional orthodoxy on sovereignty.
- Even conservative Christian voices now tell us that we must choose between a rigid market orthodoxy and ‘compassionate conservatism’.
- It basically conveys a sense of political hostility rather than religious rigidity, militancy, conservatism or orthodoxy.
- Those who militantly defend the conservative orthodoxy in Australia see all change as an affront to the past, especially their view of the past.
- Sounds like the university is ‘requiring conformity with… orthodoxy of content and method.’
- National Review has long bucked conservative orthodoxy on drug prohibition.
- Greenspan made himself the living embodiment of the conservative market orthodoxy that still reigns over conventional opinion, despite its spectacular failures.
- Anarchism, like Coltrane, is the rational, syllogistic, positive rejection of convention and unjust orthodoxy.
- Without tenure, job security would be a function of a professor's conformity to patriotic orthodoxy.
- The colonial experience thus induced a certain schizophrenia, where a tension persisted between the new world of warfare and the traditions of European orthodoxy.
- Made that much more sensitive by the premature death of his mother and the stern behavior of his father, he grows to reject his father's traditional orthodoxy only to assume them in his adult years.
- Traditional orthodoxy has long been passé at HDS and the intellectual influence on religion by the faculty has been negligible.
- I also like Mill's querulous intolerance of the conformist pressure of orthodoxy and his impatience with unthoughtfulness.
- Deregulation promotes programming in which mediocrity supersedes excellence, and conformity and orthodoxy are reinforced at the expense of diversity.
- Saturn governs theories and scientific law, older persons, depth, patience, timing, tradition, conventionality, orthodoxy and productive use of time.
- The old nationalist orthodoxy had become by then the domain of a few cranks.
- The usual proposals, however, conform to an orthodoxy based on unstated answers to these questions.
- During World War II, Mitterrand began the break with conservative orthodoxy that resulted in his becoming France's most influential Socialist politician.
- Anglican orthodoxy and conservative political principles insisted on the value of existing institutions, while revolution, Romanticism, and the rise of democracy insisted on the necessity of progress.
- What has edged into the mainstream of psychology is that which conforms to disciplinary orthodoxy.
Synonyms conventionality, conventionalism, conformism, conservatism, traditionalism, conformity, properness, propriety, correctness, doctrinalism, unoriginality
2The whole community of Orthodox Jews or Orthodox Christians. she was brought up in orthodoxy Example sentencesExamples - For nearly two years he tried to adopt Day's anarcho-pacifist politics and her devotion to Catholic orthodoxy, while spending his evenings at the White Horse Tavern.
- As a result of their simplistic attitude a narrow strand of Disciplinarian theology is inflated to embrace the whole of Reformed orthodoxy.
- Both have theologies radically immersed in the gospel and in life at its darkest points, and are orthodoxly Christian in ways which show Christian orthodoxy to be anything but comfortable.
- This bold optimism with its adherence to original innocence is one of his most attractive features, but it has also led his readers to question his Christian orthodoxy.
- Many forms of religious orthodoxy, Catholicism for one, that affirm a gap between human and divine morality have made their peace with democracy.
- He goes on to claim that social theory is a poor reflection of Christian orthodoxy.
- ‘I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy,’ said southern writer Flannery O'Connor.
- The violent enforcement of orthodoxy in Christian history is the necessary and logical consequence of seeing an institution as the agent and protector of transcendent truth.
- Of the three dissenting denominations, it was the Congregationalists and the Calvinistic Baptists who stayed true to Christian orthodoxy as the seventeenth century gave way to the eighteenth.
- I wonder what part he daily participation in the liturgy in Christ Church Cathedral has played in this movement into orthodoxy.
- Those who have observed the wider evangelical scene over the past two decades will hardly need to be told that a massive defection from Christian orthodoxy has been taking place.
- This is from one of the great Theological Orations which he preached while there, speeches which have become known as bastions of Trinitarian and Christological orthodoxy.
- Finally, Wesley speaks of a present experience of Christian orthodoxy and of its effects in his life.
- Though he ridiculed churches, clerics, orthodoxy, and anthropomorphic gods, he retained the moral fervor of his Protestant heritage.
- Newman has produced an understanding of history where the struggle between orthodoxy and heresy results in the eventual defeat of false belief.
- Take orthodoxy away and the whole thing ceases to make sense.
- But the Christian orthodoxy considered all such attempts blasphemous.
- Like Theodorakis, Kazantzakis was deeply imbued with orthodoxy, with its rituals, its traditions, its beliefs-a very, very powerful part of his own culture.
- The ambition is nothing less than to thoroughly discredit Newman as an apologist for Christian orthodoxy and - what is its counterpart - as a critic of liberalism.
- In the world of orthodoxy it is as though certain ‘Christian experiences’ are dangling in society waiting for individuals to have them.
Origin Mid 17th century: via late Latin from late Greek orthodoxia 'sound doctrine', from orthodoxos (see orthodox). Definition of orthodoxy in US English: orthodoxynounˈɔrθəˌdɑksiˈôrTHəˌdäksē 1Authorized or generally accepted theory, doctrine, or practice. he challenged many of the established orthodoxies Example sentencesExamples - The cover tells us a lot about the book itself, particularly its aim which is to give designers a kick-start, an infusion of new ideas or challenge existing orthodoxies about Web design.
- Rosenberg builds on Marx's work in order both to criticize prevailing orthodoxies in international relations theory and to develop an alternative theoretical position.
- To this extent the Lib Dem thinking on fiscal policy is firmly rooted in the orthodoxies of the 1970s.
- New doctrinal and linguistic orthodoxies were put in place to institutionalize the gains made by revisionists in the name of pluralism and inclusivity.
- One need not subscribe to orthodoxies - proper beliefs-in order to pray to God.
- He was distinctly nervous of orthodoxies and almost physically pained by rigid doctrinal systems.
- Holism was the unquestioned orthodoxy of the Western tradition of practising medicine and investigating nature for the two millennia before the nineteenth century.
- No-one should argue against teaching future citizens to think critically and to subject orthodoxies and truisms to rigorous examination.
- So in the end, the internet gives us the opportunity to make more nuanced expressions of our political worldview, which makes obsolete old orthodoxies and old definitions of left and right.
- Indeed, challenging public orthodoxies about the past in a constructive and sympathetic way is one of the most valuable contributions that the historian can make in the museum sector.
- Those who challenge widely accepted orthodoxies, believing them to rest on sand, will need to ensure that their own challenges have secure foundations.
- The orthodoxies of fiscal rectitude and monetary restraint are no more.
- Radical innovators challenge the dogmas and the orthodoxies of the incumbents.
- He was a powerful figure in the Vatican and a guardian of orthodoxy for a very conservative pope.
- The practice of politics is based on rigid orthodoxies that defy empirical testing.
- His ideas themselves went against the dirigiste orthodoxies of his age and discipline, and earned him much disdain and opprobrium.
- Rejecting orthodoxies and abstract theories alike, the neoconservatives tended to operate in close proximity to ongoing events.
- It is true that past scientific orthodoxies have themselves inspired policies that hindsight reveals to be seriously flawed.
- The apparent orthodoxy of forbidding all orthodoxies is a philosophical puzzle in liberalism since John Locke.
- She knows all about political correctness and challenging prevailing orthodoxy.
- The Kharijites tolerated no slight deviance from their orthodoxies and ideas of morality.
- Emerson's worldview, repelled by orthodoxies, was open-ended, evolving, unspecified, rejecting all incarnations as strictly pro tern.
- The more basic problem lies in the undoubted decline, for a significant minority, of assent to previously popular orthodoxies and ideologies.
- Socrates believed in the intrinsic value of asking honest questions and challenging orthodoxy.
Synonyms doctrine, belief, conviction, creed, dogma, credo, theory, view, idea, tenet, teaching, practice, received wisdom, article of faith - 1.1 The quality of conforming to orthodox theories, doctrines, or practices.
writings of unimpeachable orthodoxy Example sentencesExamples - Either they could choose to follow the latest will of Parliament, thereby preserving some remnant of traditional orthodoxy on sovereignty.
- I also like Mill's querulous intolerance of the conformist pressure of orthodoxy and his impatience with unthoughtfulness.
- Anarchism, like Coltrane, is the rational, syllogistic, positive rejection of convention and unjust orthodoxy.
- Those who militantly defend the conservative orthodoxy in Australia see all change as an affront to the past, especially their view of the past.
- Even conservative Christian voices now tell us that we must choose between a rigid market orthodoxy and ‘compassionate conservatism’.
- Sounds like the university is ‘requiring conformity with… orthodoxy of content and method.’
- What has edged into the mainstream of psychology is that which conforms to disciplinary orthodoxy.
- Traditional orthodoxy has long been passé at HDS and the intellectual influence on religion by the faculty has been negligible.
- Anglican orthodoxy and conservative political principles insisted on the value of existing institutions, while revolution, Romanticism, and the rise of democracy insisted on the necessity of progress.
- Saturn governs theories and scientific law, older persons, depth, patience, timing, tradition, conventionality, orthodoxy and productive use of time.
- During World War II, Mitterrand began the break with conservative orthodoxy that resulted in his becoming France's most influential Socialist politician.
- It basically conveys a sense of political hostility rather than religious rigidity, militancy, conservatism or orthodoxy.
- Without tenure, job security would be a function of a professor's conformity to patriotic orthodoxy.
- Made that much more sensitive by the premature death of his mother and the stern behavior of his father, he grows to reject his father's traditional orthodoxy only to assume them in his adult years.
- Deregulation promotes programming in which mediocrity supersedes excellence, and conformity and orthodoxy are reinforced at the expense of diversity.
- National Review has long bucked conservative orthodoxy on drug prohibition.
- The usual proposals, however, conform to an orthodoxy based on unstated answers to these questions.
- The colonial experience thus induced a certain schizophrenia, where a tension persisted between the new world of warfare and the traditions of European orthodoxy.
- Greenspan made himself the living embodiment of the conservative market orthodoxy that still reigns over conventional opinion, despite its spectacular failures.
- The old nationalist orthodoxy had become by then the domain of a few cranks.
Synonyms conventionality, conventionalism, conformism, conservatism, traditionalism, conformity, properness, propriety, correctness, doctrinalism, unoriginality
2The whole community of Orthodox Jews or Orthodox Christians. Example sentencesExamples - I wonder what part he daily participation in the liturgy in Christ Church Cathedral has played in this movement into orthodoxy.
- The violent enforcement of orthodoxy in Christian history is the necessary and logical consequence of seeing an institution as the agent and protector of transcendent truth.
- Those who have observed the wider evangelical scene over the past two decades will hardly need to be told that a massive defection from Christian orthodoxy has been taking place.
- Take orthodoxy away and the whole thing ceases to make sense.
- Newman has produced an understanding of history where the struggle between orthodoxy and heresy results in the eventual defeat of false belief.
- But the Christian orthodoxy considered all such attempts blasphemous.
- Finally, Wesley speaks of a present experience of Christian orthodoxy and of its effects in his life.
- The ambition is nothing less than to thoroughly discredit Newman as an apologist for Christian orthodoxy and - what is its counterpart - as a critic of liberalism.
- This bold optimism with its adherence to original innocence is one of his most attractive features, but it has also led his readers to question his Christian orthodoxy.
- ‘I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy,’ said southern writer Flannery O'Connor.
- As a result of their simplistic attitude a narrow strand of Disciplinarian theology is inflated to embrace the whole of Reformed orthodoxy.
- Of the three dissenting denominations, it was the Congregationalists and the Calvinistic Baptists who stayed true to Christian orthodoxy as the seventeenth century gave way to the eighteenth.
- Like Theodorakis, Kazantzakis was deeply imbued with orthodoxy, with its rituals, its traditions, its beliefs-a very, very powerful part of his own culture.
- Many forms of religious orthodoxy, Catholicism for one, that affirm a gap between human and divine morality have made their peace with democracy.
- In the world of orthodoxy it is as though certain ‘Christian experiences’ are dangling in society waiting for individuals to have them.
- For nearly two years he tried to adopt Day's anarcho-pacifist politics and her devotion to Catholic orthodoxy, while spending his evenings at the White Horse Tavern.
- This is from one of the great Theological Orations which he preached while there, speeches which have become known as bastions of Trinitarian and Christological orthodoxy.
- Both have theologies radically immersed in the gospel and in life at its darkest points, and are orthodoxly Christian in ways which show Christian orthodoxy to be anything but comfortable.
- Though he ridiculed churches, clerics, orthodoxy, and anthropomorphic gods, he retained the moral fervor of his Protestant heritage.
- He goes on to claim that social theory is a poor reflection of Christian orthodoxy.
Origin Mid 17th century: via late Latin from late Greek orthodoxia ‘sound doctrine’, from orthodoxos (see orthodox). |