orthodoxies in English

noun

1

authorized or generally accepted theory, doctrine, or practice.

monetarist orthodoxy

synonyms: doctrine, belief, conviction, creed, dogma, credo, theory, tenet, teaching

2

the whole community of Orthodox Jews or Orthodox Christians.

Finally, Wesley speaks of a present experience of Christian orthodoxy and of its effects in his life.

noun

• conventionality, conventionalism, conformism, conservatism, traditionalism, conformity
• doctrine, belief, conviction, creed, dogma, credo, theory, tenet, teaching

Use "orthodoxies" in a sentence

1. They both hated orthodoxies and bandwagons, catch-phrases and rallying cries.

2. Seduction continues to appear to all orthodoxies as malefice and artifice, a black magic for the deviation of all truths, an exaltation of the malicious use of signs, a conspiracy of signs.

3. 26 Seduction continues to appear to all orthodoxies as malefice and artifice, a black magic for the deviation of all truths, an exaltation of the malicious use of signs, a conspiracy of signs.

4. This reshaping of cultural orthodoxies is interpreted in this study as both authentic and "Activistic" in the sense that satire represents a purpose-driven attempt to build a consensual community devoted to genuine socio-cultural change

5. In 1996, the academic John Roberts summed up the spirit of the age as one of 'fuck-you Attitudinising ' in relation to traditions and orthodoxies; writing in The Guardian in 2012, Will Self recalled that he admired the Goldsmiths generation in their heady heyday precisely because of 'their conscious rejection of all codified styles and modes'.