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Another word for orthodox

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orthodox

modif.

standard, customary, doctrinal; see conservative, conventional 3.

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Another word for orthodox

adjective

Adhering to beliefs or practices approved by authority or tradition:
canonical, received, sanctioned, time-honored. See usual
Conforming to established practice or standards:
button-down, conformist, conventional, establishmentarian, straight, traditional. (Slang) square. See usual
Generally approved or agreed upon:
accepted, conventional, received, recognized, sanctioned. See accept, agree, straight, usual
Strongly favoring retention of the existing order:
conservative, right, rightist, right-wing, Tory, traditionalist, traditionalistic. See keep

noun

One who strongly favors retention of the existing order:

conservative, rightist, right-winger, Tory, traditionalist. See keep

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All the Albanians in Greece belong to the Orthodox Church.
Rheims. For three years the strife continued, and was probably based on the opposition between the Averroists, Siger and Pierre Dubois, and the more orthodox schoolmen.
Polish proprietors settled in large numbers on the Cossack territory, and great efforts were made, with the assistance of the Jesuits, to bring the Orthodox population under papal authority.
He was the scholarly leader of the orthodox wing of the Presbyterian church in America, and was moderator of the General Assembly of 1891.
The Mordvinians are nearly all Orthodox Greek, as also are the Votyaks, Voguls, Cheremisses and Chuvashes, but their religions are, in reality, modifications of Shamanism under the influence of some Christian and Moslem beliefs.

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