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Unorthodoxy

noun
1.
Any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position.  Synonyms: heresy, heterodoxy.
2.
A belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion.  Synonym: heresy.
3.
The quality of being unorthodox.  Synonym: heterodoxy.





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"Unorthodoxy" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Clazomenae, born about 499 B.C. He came to Athens and had great influence there, being the friend of Pericles and Euripides. He was, however, banished for unorthodoxy and ...
— The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura • Lucius Apuleius
... people have been sent to Omega. There are the true criminals guilty of murder, arson, armed robbery, and the like. Those are the people you lived among. And there are the people guilty of deviational crimes such as political unreliability, scientific unorthodoxy, and irreligious attitudes. These people compose our organization, which, for the purposes of identification, we call Group Two. As far as we can remember and reconstruct, our crimes were largely a matter of holding ...
— The Status Civilization • Robert Sheckley
... see him now as we used to sit, vis-a-vis, at his study table. Samson's physical strength came from his hair. From the same source, it seemed to me, Mr. Pound derived that mental vigor with which he pulled down the temples of ignorance and slew the thousand devils of unorthodoxy which sprang from my doubting mind. From the top of his head a red lock flamed up, licking the air; over its sides the hair tumbled in cataracts, breaking about his ears; then the surging hair lost itself ...
— David Malcolm • Nelson Lloyd


Words linked to "Unorthodoxy" :   Arianism, Monophysitism, Nestorianism, Zurvanism, tritheism, Albigensianism, nonconformance, Catharism, iconoclasm, content, cognitive content, Monothelitism, nonconformism, mental object, unconventionality, Gnosticism, Pelagianism, orientation, Docetism, originality, Marcionism, orthodoxy, nonconformity, heresy


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