orthodoxy
1Orthodoxy — • Right belief or purity of faith. Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Orthodoxy Orthodoxy † …
2Orthodoxy — 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}. [1913 Webster] Basil himself …
3orthodoxy — index doctrine, dogma Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
4orthodoxy — 1620s, from Gk. orthodoxia, from orthodoxos (see ORTHODOX (Cf. orthodox)) …
5orthodoxy — ► NOUN (pl. orthodoxies) 1) orthodox theory, doctrine, or practice. 2) the state of being orthodox. 3) the whole community of Orthodox Jews or Orthodox Christians …
6orthodoxy — [ôr′thə däk΄sē] n. pl. orthodoxies [Gr orthodoxia] 1. the quality or fact of being orthodox 2. an orthodox belief, doctrine, custom, etc …
7ORTHODOXY — The term Orthodoxy first appeared in respect to Judaism in 1795, and became widely used from the beginning of the 19th century in contradistinction to the reform movement in judaism . In later times other terms, such as Torah true, became popular …
8Orthodoxy — For other uses, see Orthodoxy (disambiguation). The Theotokos of Vladimir icon (12th century) The word orthodox, from Greek orthos ( right , true , straight ) + doxa ( opinion or belief , related to dokein, to think ),[1 …
9orthodoxy — [[t]ɔ͟ː(r)θədɒksi[/t]] orthodoxies 1) N VAR An orthodoxy is an accepted view about something. These ideas rapidly became the new orthodoxy in linguistics... He broke from prevailing orthodoxies and asked the awkward questions... What was once a… …
10Orthodoxy — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Orthodoxy >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 orthodoxy orthodoxy Sgm: N 1 strictness strictness soundness religious truth true faith Sgm: N 1 truth truth &c. 494 Sgm: N 1 soundness of doctrine soundness of doctrine …
