orthodox

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  1. adjective Adhering to the accepted or traditional and established faith, especially in religion.
  2. adjective Adhering to the Christian faith as expressed in the early Christian ecumenical creeds.
  3. adjective Of or relating to any of the churches or rites of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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  • Ultra-orthodox: local politics and transportation issues. —  :-Israelisms Podcast
  • His comments about the Ultra orthodox were - they are just plain crazy ultra-nationalists, mixed with religious extremism. —  365 Gay News
  • He concedes that some people consider him not just orthodox, but ultra-orthodox. —  Suburban Guerrilla
  • Both seem to be very dynamic, orthodox, and seem supportive of what we are doing at my Catholic high school. —  Per Christum Catholic Blog
  • Tel Aviv, the orthodox are imposing their rules more forcefully than before and the lives of the city's women are becoming more circumscribed, and sometimes more dangerous, as a result. —  AWID RSS Feed
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English orthodoxe, from Old French, from Late Latin orthodoxus, from Late Greek orthodoxos : Greek ortho-, ortho- + Greek doxa, opinion (from dokein, to think; see dek- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. = French orthodoxe = Spanish ortodoxo = Portuguese orthodoxo = Italian ortodosso, from Late Latin orthodoxus, from LGr. ὀρθόδοξος, having a right opinion, from Greek ὀρθός, straight, right, correct, + δόξα, opinion: see dogma, doxology.
 

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