About The Word Orthodoxy
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What's The Definition Of Orthodoxy?
[n] the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion)
[n] a belief or orientation agreeing with conventional standards Synonyms | Synonyms for Orthodoxy: Related Terms | Find terms related to Orthodoxy: accommodation | accord | accordance | acquiescence | adaptation | adaption | adjustment | agreement | belief | compliance | conformance | conformation other-direction | conformity | congruity | consistency | conventionality | correspondence | credo | creed | doctrine | faith | firmness | flexibility | fundamentalism | hardness | harmony | impliability | inexorability | inflexibility | keeping | line | malleability | obduracy | obdurateness | obedience | observance | obstinacy | pliancy | precisianism | purism | puritanism | reconcilement | reconciliation | relentlessness | religion | religious belief | religious faith | rigidity | rigidness | rigor | rigorousness | stiffness | strictness | stubbornness | system of beliefs | teaching | theology | tradition | traditionalism | unbendingness | uncompromisingness | uniformity | unrelentingness | unyieldingness See Also | conformism | conformity | convention | conventionalism | conventionality | orientation | traditionalism | traditionality | unoriginality Orthodoxy In Webster's Dictionary \Or"tho*dox`y\, n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. orthodoxie. See
{Orthodox}.]
1. Soundness of faith; a belief in the doctrines taught in
the Scriptures, or in some established standard of faith;
-- opposed to {heterodoxy} or to {heresy}.
Basil himself bears full and clear testimony to
Gregory's orthodoxy. --Waterland.
2. Consonance to genuine Scriptural doctrines; -- said of
moral doctrines and beliefs; as, the orthodoxy of a creed.
3. By extension, said of any correct doctrine or belief.
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