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heterodox

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het·er·o·dox  (htr--dks)
adj.
1. Not in agreement with accepted beliefs, especially in church doctrine or dogma.
2. Holding unorthodox opinions.

[Greek heterodoxos : hetero-, hetero- + doxa, opinion (from dokein, to think; see dek- in Indo-European roots).]

heterodox [ˈhɛtərəʊˌdɒks]
adj
1. (Christian Religious Writings / Theology) at variance with established, orthodox, or accepted doctrines or beliefs
2. holding unorthodox opinions
[from Greek heterodoxos holding another opinion, from hetero- + doxa opinion]
heterodoxy  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.heterodox - characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards
unorthodox - breaking with convention or tradition; "an unorthodox lifestyle"

heterodox
adjective unorthodox, dissident, heretical, revisionist, unsound, iconoclastic, schismatic They were generally treating heterodox ideas as un-American.
Translations
heterodox [ˈhetərədɒks] ADJheterodoxo
heterodox [ˈhɛtərədɒks] adj (= unorthodox) → hétérodoxe
heterodox


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Already I was considered heterodox if not treasonable, and I was keenly alive to the danger of my position; nevertheless I could not at times refrain from bursting out into suspicious or half-seditious utterances, even among the highest Polygonal and Circular society.
Dean's question, which struck me as something heterodox.
It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodox religionist, was to be scourged out of the town, or an idle or vagrant Indian, whom the white man's firewater had made riotous about the streets, was to be driven with stripes into the shadow of the forest.
 
 
 
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