Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With soundness of faith; in a manner conformed to the teachings and practice of those who hold the orthodox or true faith.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an orthodox manner; with soundness of faith.
Etymologies
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Examples
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That reader is made to recognize how simultaneously necessary and deadly the characteristic pause is: necessary, because it is the condition of close reading; deadly, because it risks mistaking the interpretive process for a fixed method, to be performed once and then endlessly, orthodoxly, reiterated.
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Boss, what say I skip over there and get us a full reading on that baby before she goes orthodox - or, should I say, orthodoxly unorthodox? '
Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972
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It is in Romish Ireland, of course, that this belief has its most legitimate seat; but even in the most orthodoxly-Presbyterian districts of Scotland, a lingering dubious trust in the healing virtues of sanctified fountains has given much perplexity to the clergy.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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No orthodoxly canonized saint of the Catholic Church ever received truer reverence, or performed such miracles of moral healing.
Elizabeth Fry Mrs. E. R. Pitman
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Confirmation has become the usual rite of admittance into their Church, even in the case of apostates who have already been confirmed orthodoxly.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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We therefore piously and orthodoxly following them and, making our profession according to their divinely inspired teaching, believe in unison with it, and confess according to the holy
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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He was a naturally religious man, if not an orthodoxly religious one.
The Devil's Garden W. B. Maxwell 1902
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Gillingham looked at him, and wondered whether it would ever happen that the reactionary spirit induced by the world's sneers and his own physical wishes would make Phillotson more orthodoxly cruel to her than he had erstwhile been informally and perversely kind.
Jude the Obscure 1896
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Gillingham looked at him, and wondered whether it would ever happen that the reactionary spirit induced by the world's sneers and his own physical wishes would make Phillotson more orthodoxly cruel to her than he had erstwhile been informally and perversely kind.
Jude the Obscure 1894
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In society one must needs be cynical and mildly wicked: in Bohemia, orthodoxly unorthodox.
Novel Notes 1893
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