Crossword-Solution: ORTHODOXY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Orthodoxy | n. | 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. |
| Orthodoxy | n. | Consonance to genuine Scriptural doctrines; -- said of moral doctrines and beliefs; as, the orthodoxy of a creed. |
| Orthodoxy | n. | By extension, said of any correct doctrine or belief. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “ORTHODOXY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Received opinion | 1 answer |
| the quality of being orthodox | 1 answer |
| What most people believe | 1 answer |
| Conventional ideology | 1 answer |
| Conventional behavior | 1 answer |
| Conforming belief | 1 answer |
| Established custom | 3 answers |
| towing the line | 9 answers |
| social adjustment | 11 answers |
| ACCEPTED DOCTRINE | 11 answers |
| compatibility | 16 answers |
| sociability | 20 answers |
| Hospitality. | 24 answers |
| Obedience | 36 answers |
| compliance | 44 answers |
| Conformity | 49 answers |
| Observance | 55 answers |
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Sentences with ORTHODOXY (5)
But when occasionally, in her own innocent way, she put both his patience and his orthodoxy to the test by her exceedingly puzzling questions, then he could not, in the depth of his heart, restrain the wish that she might have been more like other young girls, and less ardently solicitous about the fate of her kind.
This atmosphere of terror, surrounding, as it did, a man of God of spotless character and orthodoxy, was a common cause of wonder and subject of inquiry among the few strangers who were led by chance or business into that unknown, outlying country.
For many years he was their chief companion; he spoke with them seriously on all subjects as if they had been grown men; at night, when work was over, he taught them arithmetic; he borrowed books for them on history, science, and theology; and he felt it his duty to supplement this last—the trait is laughably Scottish—by a dialogue of his own composition, where his own private shade of orthodoxy was exactly represented.
Bide-the-Bent, a presbyterian clergyman, formerly mentioned, of the very strictest order and the most rigid orthodoxy, whose aid she called in, upon the principle of the tyrant in the tragedy: I’ll have a priest shall preach her from her faith, And make it sin not to renounce that vow Which I’d have broken.
Thereupon a well-to-do citizen arose and moved the thanks of the audience to the eminent professor for "this perfect demonstration of the exact and literal conformity of the statements given in Holy Scripture with the latest results of science." The motion was carried unanimously and with applause, and the audience dispersed, feeling that a great service had been rendered to orthodoxy.
Quotes with ORTHODOXY (3)
The theological perspective of participation actually saves the appearances by exceeding them. It recognizes that materialism and spiritualism are false alternatives, since if there is only finite matter there is not even that, and that for phenomena really to be there they must be more than there. Hence, by appealing to an eternal source for bodies, their art, language, sexual and political union, one is not ethereally taking leave of their density. On the contrary, one is i…
(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and then.
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is “not done” to say it… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1972–2007).