Orthodoxy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Orthodoxy \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 bears full and clear testimony to
              Gregory's orthodoxy.                  --Waterland.
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     2. Consonance to genuine Scriptural doctrines; -- said of
        moral doctrines and beliefs; as, the orthodoxy of a creed.
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     3. By extension, said of any generally accepted doctrine or
        belief; the orthodox practice or belief.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  orthodoxy
       n 1: the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion) [ant:
             {unorthodoxy}]
       2: a belief or orientation agreeing with conventional standards
          [ant: {unorthodoxy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "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