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Definition of Orthodoxy
Orthodoxy

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.

Consonance to genuine Scriptural doctrines; -- said of moral doctrines and beliefs; as, the orthodoxy of a creed.

By extension, said of any correct doctrine or belief.

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Orthodoxy Quotations

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
George Orwell

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
Aldous Huxley

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
Thomas Huxley

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Helen Keller

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.
Laurence Housman

Orthodoxy Translations

orthodoxy in Spanish is ortodoxia


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