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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OR'THODOXY, n. [Gr. right, true, and opinion, from to think.]
1. Soundness of faith; a belief in the genuine doctrines taught in the Scriptures.
Basil bears full and clear testimony to Gregory's orthodoxy.
2. Consonance to genuine scriptural doctrines; as the orthodoxy of a creed.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion) [ant: heterodoxy, unorthodoxy]
2: a belief or orientation agreeing with conventional standards [ant: heresy, heterodoxy, unorthodoxy]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -doxies) Date: 1630 1. the quality or state of being orthodox 2. an orthodox belief or practice 3. capitalized a. Eastern Orthodox Christianity b. Orthodox Judaism

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 the state of being orthodox. 2 a the orthodox practice of Judaism. b the body of orthodox Jews. 3 esp. Relig. an authorized or generally accepted theory, doctrine, etc. Etymology: LL orthodoxia f. late Gk orthodoxia sound doctrine (as ORTHODOX)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Orthodoxy Or"tho*dox`y, n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. orthodoxie. See Orthodox.] 1. 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. Basil himself bears full and clear testimony to Gregory's orthodoxy. --Waterland. 2. Consonance to genuine Scriptural doctrines; -- said of moral doctrines and beliefs; as, the orthodoxy of a creed. 3. By extension, said of any correct doctrine or belief.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(orthodoxies) 1. An orthodoxy is an accepted view about something. These ideas rapidly became the new orthodoxy in linguistics... What was once a novel approach had become orthodoxy. N-VAR 2. The old, traditional beliefs of a religion, political party, or philosophy can be referred to as orthodoxy. ...a conflict between Nat's religious orthodoxy and Rube's belief that his mission is to make money. N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. True faith, soundness of doctrine.

Moby Thesaurus

accommodation, accord, accordance, acquiescence, adaptation, adaption, adjustment, agreement, belief, compliance, conformance, conformation other-direction, conformity, congruity, consistency, conventionality, correspondence, credo, creed, doctrine, faith, firmness, flexibility, fundamentalism, hardness, harmony, impliability, inexorability, inflexibility, keeping, line, malleability, obduracy, obdurateness, obedience, observance, obstinacy, pliancy, precisianism, purism, puritanism, reconcilement, reconciliation, relentlessness, religion, religious belief, religious faith, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, stiffness, strictness, stubbornness, system of beliefs, teaching, theology, tradition, traditionalism, unbendingness, uncompromisingness, uniformity, unrelentingness, unyieldingness