heterodox

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[61] Pious severity to the heterodox was a Norman virtue.

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  1. adjective Not in agreement with accepted beliefs, especially in church doctrine or dogma.
  2. adjective Holding unorthodox opinions.

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  • You will think these ideas horribly heterodox, but if we all thought alike there would be nothing to write about and nothing to learn. —  Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
  • I need not say which was heterodox, or that each had a deep and strenuous conscience in the matter. —  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • All this is very heterodox, and ought, I suppose, to get me into serious trouble, especially with the makers of small-bore rifles; but still I am convinced that my own ideas are correct—which is, after all, the correct mental attitude for a reformer. —  Diary of a Soldier of Fortune
  • Our writers follow the same approach as those who were of the opposite mind and who classified the later heterodox (Latins) with those early heretics who, according to Canon VII of the Second Ecumenical Council, could be received without —  orrologion
  • For starters, Syria is ruled by a besieged and insecure minority, the Alawites, a heterodox-Shi'ite ethnic minority. —  TIME.com: Top Stories
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  1. Greek heterodoxos : hetero-, hetero- + doxa, opinion (from dokein, to think; see dek- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. = French hétérodoxe = Spanish Portuguese heterodoxo = Italian eterodosso, from Greek ἑτερόδοξος, of another or different opinion, hence holding opinions other than the ‘right’ ones (opposed to ὀρθόδοξος, orthodox), from ἑτερος, other, different, + δόξα, opinion: see doxology.
 

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