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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
Adjective
different from established or accepted doctrines or beliefs [hetero- + Greek doxa opinion]
heterodoxy n
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Adj.1.heterodox - characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards
dissident, heretical
unorthodox - breaking with convention or tradition; "an unorthodox lifestyle"
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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.
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Dean's question, which struck me as something heterodox.
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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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