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noun, plural -dox·ies for 1.

orthodox belief or practice.

orthodox character.

Origin:
1620–30; < Late Latin orthodoxia < Greek orthodoxía right opinion, equivalent to orthódox(os) (see orthodox) + -ia -y³

Related forms

an·ti·or·tho·dox·y, noun

hy·per·or·tho·dox·y, noun

pro-or·tho·dox·y, adjective

un·or·tho·dox·y, noun, plural -dox·ies.

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But no: over the last few months there has been a stunning resurgence of hard-money and balanced-budget orthodoxy.

Political orthodoxy ran through the discussion of the report's results.

Europe's left-leaning leaders are shaking off the economic orthodoxy of their predecessors.

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But no: over the last few months there has been a stunning resurgence of hard-money and balanced-budget orthodoxy.

Political orthodoxy ran through the discussion of the report's results.

Europe's left-leaning leaders are shaking off the economic orthodoxy of their predecessors.

The mantra that no part of the pictures should have blown-out highlights became my orthodoxy.

Duesberg all but excommunicated from the scientific orthodoxy.

Sound policy is often trumping adherence to political orthodoxy.

And guess what: heterodoxy is working a whole lot better than orthodoxy.

If they have, the shrinking of politics around the current orthodoxy does not represent any weakening of democracy.

There was no orthodoxy or judgement about how you dressed or whatever.

Hence the pressure to remove editors who dared question the orthodoxy.

His untamed sense of humor reveals a frank genius for skewing orthodoxy.

Hence the contorted spectacle of a party preparing for power at a time when the markets are challenging its every orthodoxy.

If the economy does not pick up, his popularity could evaporate-and with it his commitment to economic orthodoxy.

He holds two controversial beliefs that challenge prevailing monetary orthodoxy.

The second is a deep-seated respect for fiscal orthodoxy.

Since then, economists have vied with each other to overturn this orthodoxy.

Those who challenge the scientific orthodoxy are more often cold-shouldered than burnt at the stake.

The underlying orthodoxy was that problems did not arise suddenly.

Science helps us understand the essential tension between orthodoxy and heresy in science.

His work in this field also overturned the prevailing orthodoxy that the left hemisphere was the dominant part of the brain.

Scriptures have a tendency to exceed the boundaries of orthodoxy and resist closure.

But they are more honest because they reflect a new, more honest orthodoxy.

Others remonstrated and proponents of climate change orthodoxy from around the world e-mailed.

He believed in a free market and the minimum of state intervention, now the orthodoxy of our times.

The orthodoxy simply cannot account for or suggest responses to sustained outlier behavior.

Indeed they eventually cannot be accepted as members unless they believe the current orthodoxy for each group.

But the continuing devotion of a handful to laissez-faire orthodoxy threatens to paralyse the euro zone.

His favourite trick was to flout orthodoxy in ways that unsettled his political allies but found favour with voters.

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orthodoxy (ˈɔːθəˌdɒksɪ)

—n , pl -doxies
1.	orthodox belief or practice
2.	the quality of being orthodox

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orthodoxy

1620s, from Gk. orthodoxia, from orthodoxos (see orthodox).

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