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orthodoxly en · ADV

Pronunciation

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• /ˈɔːθədɒksli/ (UK)

Etymology

From orthodox + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a correct or proper way; conventionally; correctly.
   • if, after a season of thoughtlessness, you perceive your understanding on a sudden lively to discern, and your will vigorous to pursue heavenly things, you may orthodoxly conclude there has been an effusion, not that there is one now. 1778, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued, III.12:
   • Biology is orthodoxly the part of science that deals directly with the phenomena of living matter. 1925, Scudder Klyce, Sins of Science, XXV.1:
   • So great was Ariel’s success and that of the similar Disraeli that readers might have expected Maurois to treat Shelley's friend and fellow-poet in the same style. But no miniature in enamel is this orthodoxly lengthy, appendixed, annotated biography of Byron. 31 March 1930, “Don Juan”, in Time:
2. In a religiously orthodox way; in accordance with accepted religious doctrine.
   • The teaching here is orthodoxly Islamic, the preoccupation with assessing the relation of works to faith is very much of the European fifteenth century. 1990, LP Harvey, Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500, page 91:
   • He wears a turban, he puts on his sandal mark every morning, he bathes and eats and marries and dies orthodoxly; he probably begets children orthodoxly. 1980, Agehananda Bharati, The Ochre Robe:

Forms

Translations (10)

pl ortodoksyjnie (religion: according to doctrine) · es ortodoxamente (in a correct or proper way) · el ορθοδόξως (religion: according to doctrine) · el ορθόδοξα (in a correct or proper way) · el ορθοδόξως (in a correct or proper way) · es ortodoxamente (religion: according to doctrine) · fi oikeaoppisesti (religion: according to doctrine) · el ορθόδοξα (religion: according to doctrine) · fi oikeaoppisesti (in a correct or proper way) · pl ortodoksyjnie (in a correct or proper way)