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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Correct practice, action, or procedure.
  • noun Same as orthopraxis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) The treatment of deformities in the human body by mechanical appliances.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Correct practice or action
  • noun Right belief combined with right practice, with the emphasis being on the latter, a term specially used in Latin American liberation theology, often in contrast with an orthodoxy seen as insufficiently interested in the practical and political content of faith.

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