heterodox
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Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek ἑτερόδοξος (heteródoxos), from ἕτερος (héteros, “other, another, different”) + δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”).
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heterodox (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to creeds, beliefs, or teachings, especially religious ones, that are different from what a religion (or sect) believes to be orthodox, but (usually) not conflicting with that religion's established beliefs and therefore not heretical.
- Synonyms: inorthodox, nonorthodox, unorthodox
- Hyponyms: heretical, nonheretical
- Most Christian denominations consider each other heterodox.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XVI, in Wuthering Heights[1]:
- Do you believe such people are happy in the other world, sir? {...} I declined answering Mrs. Dean’s question, which struck me as something heterodox.
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of or pertaining to creeds, beliefs, or teachings that are different from the norm
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Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French hétérodoxe.
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heterodox (not comparable)
- heterodox (deviating from some orthodoxy, whether religious or ideological)
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Inflection of heterodox | ||||
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uninflected | heterodox | |||
inflected | heterodoxe | |||
comparative | — | |||
positive | ||||
predicative/adverbial | heterodox | |||
indefinite | m./f. sing. | heterodoxe | ||
n. sing. | heterodox | |||
plural | heterodoxe | |||
definite | heterodoxe | |||
partitive | heterodox |
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heterodox m or n (feminine singular heterodoxă, masculine plural heterodocși, feminine and neuter plural heterodoxe)
- Alternative form of eterodox
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Declension of heterodox
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | heterodox | heterodoxă | heterodocși | heterodoxe | ||
definite | heterodoxul | heterodoxa | heterodocșii | heterodoxele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | heterodox | heterodoxe | heterodocși | heterodoxe | ||
definite | heterodoxului | heterodoxei | heterodocșilor | heterodoxelor |