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Heterodoxy   /hˈɛtərədˌɑksi/   Listen
Heterodoxy

noun
1.
Any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position.  Synonyms: heresy, unorthodoxy.
2.
The quality of being unorthodox.  Synonym: unorthodoxy.






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"Heterodoxy" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the religion of my father. It is not everybody who can be an atheist. I was born a Catholic, and will fulfil all the duties of the Catholic church, and receive the assistance which it administers." He then turned to Dr. Antommarchi, whom he seems to have suspected of heterodoxy, which the doctor, however, disowned. "How can you carry it so far?" he said. "Can you not believe in God, whose existence every thing proclaims, and in whom the greatest ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, Supplementary Number, Issue 263, 1827 • Various

... society. His wristbands and black gloves, his hat and nicely clipped hair, his laudable moderation in beard, and his evident discrimination in choosing his tailor, all seemed to excuse the prevalent estimate of him as a man untainted with heterodoxy, and likely to be so unencumbered with opinions that he would always be useful as an assenting and admiring listener. Men of science seeing him at their lectures doubtless flattered themselves that he came ...
— Impressions of Theophrastus Such • George Eliot



Words linked to "Heterodoxy" :   nonconformance, unconventionality, iconoclasm, nonconformism, orthodoxy, orientation, originality, nonconformity



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