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Example sentences for "orthodox"

Lexicographically close words:
orter; orth; ortho; orthochromatic; orthoclase; orthodoxy; orthoepy; orthogonal; orthographic; orthographical
  1. His oratorios are the composite of the orthodox style of the church, the traits of the Neapolitan School deprived of their meretricious tendencies, and a precocious expressive and dramatic instinct, the birthright of his own genius.

  2. It seems admitted that the orthodox theologians have failed to give any sufficient answer.

  3. To be hung up as an ecclesiastical scarecrow, as a target for heterodox and orthodox to practice archery upon, is no fate that can be due to the memory of Sterling.

  4. Every orthodox Jew in the world keeps a similar box in his house and drops a coin into it whenever he escapes some danger.

  5. But then her mind was firmly made up, and she had boasted to her friends that she was bound to marry a doctor, and here this boy was not even going to be a business man, but an orthodox rabbi or something of the sort.

  6. The prodigy and his importer were the talk of the orthodox colony, and nothing was more pleasing to Asriel than to hear the praises of his daughter's fiance sounded by the Talmudists.

  7. In the so-called Orthodox catechism it says: "By the one church of Christ is meant nothing but the Orthodox, which remains in complete agreement with the oecumenical church.

  8. For the Greek Orthodox the divine church coincides with the establishment of the Eastern and the Russian Church.

  9. And let it not be said that the Orthodox teachers place the essence of the teaching in something else, and that these are only ancient forms which it is not considered right to destroy.

  10. Khomyakov's definition of the church, which has some currency among Russians, does not mend matters, if we recognize with Khomyakov that the Orthodox is the one true church.

  11. But as this fits quite as well as the bite and the kick in Genesis, or the virgin and her son in Isaiah, it will pass in the lump of orthodox things.

  12. They conceive that there must be something in it, though by no means to the extent to which it is pushed by orthodox Christians.

  13. It is perfectly possible for the cautious and orthodox pedestrian to spend so much time and effort in dodging the dangers of life's path, and in endeavouring to keep off the grass, that he makes no solid progress.

  14. The academic writer, steeped in his contrapuntal devices and harmonic progressions, so intent upon the orthodox resolution of his discords, is apt to produce excellent dry bones without the informing spirit.

  15. In a way, or in its principle, our subject is orthodox enough.

  16. If you'd like a little specimen of the standardization of orthodox opinion-- Amer.

  17. It comes out absolutely for the orthodox explanation--absolutely and beautifully, also expensively.

  18. It is orthodox enough to say that a horse is not a horse, to an infant--any more than is an orange an orange to the unsophisticated.

  19. An orthodox demonstration, in terms of which we shall have some heresies, is that if things found in coal could have got there only by falling there--they fell there.

  20. The orthodox explanation is a crime: whoever made it, should have had his finger-prints taken.

  21. The orthodox belief is that objects moving at planetary velocity would, upon entering this earth's atmosphere, be virtually unaffected by hurricanes; might as well think of a bullet swerved by someone fanning himself.

  22. The orthodox explanation: See the Report of the Krakatoa Committee of the Royal Society.

  23. That's about 800 times the duration that the orthodox give to meteors and meteorites.

  24. We do note that, before excommunication is pronounced, orthodox journals do liberally enough record unassimilable observations.

  25. In this instance, if you don't take instinctively to our expression, there is no orthodox explanation for your preference.

  26. That certainly was the orthodox view, a generation ago,” said the Earl.

  27. The orthodox clergy were everywhere regarded by this time as the typical enemies of the revolutionary movement; they themselves regarded the revolutionary movement, by this time, as being principally an attempt to destroy the Catholic Church.

  28. The King was perfectly free to receive communion privately from the hands of orthodox priests, did so receive it, and had received communion well within the canonical times.

  29. Now, the clergy were either orthodox or Pietist.

  30. Everywhere began a more human conception of earthly things, the struggle against the orthodox errors.

  31. It was not, in the first instance, particularly learned ecclesiastics who were Pietists; on the contrary, the greater portion of the clergy in 1700 stood firm to the orthodox point of view in opposition to them.

  32. Even the orthodox opponents were, without knowing it, transformed by this Pietism; the old scholastic disputes were silenced, and they endeavoured to defend their own point of view with greater dignity and learning.

  33. But the hatred of the orthodox party has done injustice to both; they were honest even when predicting marvels.

  34. He was an orthodox and pious Jew, but when you gave him a book to bind, he never kept his word.

  35. The little chap was too orthodox to love dissenting preachers' sermons.

  36. Her first overwhelming emotional feeling was a patriotic nationalistic feeling for Russia, and a mystic devotion to the person of the Emperor and the Russian Orthodox Church.

  37. Her first, overwhelming emotional feeling was a patriotic nationalistic devotion to Russia and a mystic devotion to the Emperor and the Russian Orthodox Church.

  38. Yet it abides as a bylaw and a precedent that only orthodox members of the original company shall have covers and places provided for them when anniversary night rolls round.

  39. Mightily well Jeff understood the how and the why and the wherefore of the derisive hate borne by the more orthodox creeds among his people for the strange new sect known as the True Believers.

  40. The common truths of orthodox Christianity are those which form the staple of his discourses.

  41. A sketch of the comparative force of the religious denominations in London, and notes upon the chief popular preachers, orthodox or dissentient, republished from a newspaper--we think the Weekly News and Chronicle.

  42. He was determined before he died to revenge himself by breaking the windows of orthodox science with the real philosopher's stone.

  43. Saint Durande is a saint of l'Angoumois, and of the Charente; whether she is an orthodox member of the calendar is a question for the Bollandists: orthodox or not, she has been made the patron saint of numerous chapels.

  44. The phlegmatic character of the Germans favours, I suppose, this peculiar arrangement, but in Guernsey every religion has its own domicile; there is the orthodox parish and the heretic parish; the individual may choose.

  45. However this may have been, it is certain that this possibility of a visit from the demon at night, when it is impossible to see distinctly, or even in slumber, caused much embarrassment among orthodox dames.

  46. He was generally regarded as representing a form of Toryism highly orthodox and respectable in principle, but rather too rampant and unyielding for the practical necessities of the political situation.

  47. All the orthodox and official forces in the Conservative party were hostile to him.

  48. Both had been joined to their orthodox party colleagues by slender and uncertain bonds.

  49. The orthodox portions of the Conservative party had become articulate.

  50. Some of them were men of such influence in the large towns that the Orthodox Conservatives did not care to oppose them.

  51. The feeling excited among the Ulster members and so largely shared by orthodox unbending Conservatives was not concealed.

  52. Sir Henry Wolff's colleague in the representation of Portsmouth was a venerable member of the orthodox Conservative party.

  53. If I apprehended your meaning rightly, you would make your programme rather rigidly orthodox Tory, with a view of expanding it into Whig heresy when the time for a fusion should seem to have arrived.

  54. You will find the principle of this measure advocated in the British Quarterly Review five years ago (a very orthodox organ of Tory doctrine).

  55. It is not coming off in the orthodox place, which I take to be nearly opposite the bathing sands of Boulogne, but upon quite a new theatre, namely upon the shores of Dublin Bay.

  56. As none of the previous Emperors had interfered with them, many people, even of the orthodox faith, procured, through this wealth, work and the means of livelihood.

  57. The truth seems to be that, being of a sceptical turn of mind, he was indifferent; but that, living under an orthodox Emperor, he affected the forms and language of Christianity.

  58. The orthodox Marxian has little use for middle-class people.

  59. The orthodox Liberal is a mere sentimentalist substituting democratic phrases for science and discipline.

  60. He cannot be called orthodox from the standpoint of the established Lutheran Church.

  61. Whether he has ever violated his vegetarian faith by eating a beefsteak on the sly I do not know, but he has drifted far from orthodox anarchism, for Socialism is, in theory at least, at the opposite pole from anarchy.

  62. The orthodox Tory is in his view simply a man without imagination.

  63. The orthodox believe that Germany got into trouble through higher criticism.

  64. Shaw is always showing how absurd and illogical are the soundest axioms and the most unquestioned platitudes, whether of orthodox conservative or orthodox revolutionary thought.

  65. I should not have mentioned him if it were not that this way of looking at things found its way over into orthodox psychology and then back again into the foundations of logical theory.

  66. What is denied is not the genuineness of the problem of the terms in which it is stated, but the reality and value of the orthodox interpretation.

  67. If the anecdote had been true, Ramsay's inference that Pope was an orthodox romanist would have been wrong.

  68. When the orthodox meaning imposed on the Essay had once been accepted by the poet, he was anxious to use the new interpretation to silence or conciliate his opponents abroad.

  69. When it was first published many orthodox persons were, I remember, offended at it, and called it the Deist's Prayer.

  70. His orthodox friends complained of the omission, and Pope was driven to deny that there was any connection between the purpose of his Essay and the doctrine of a future state.

  71. However, Mr. Pope may be justified in receiving and enforcing this Platonic notion, as it hath been adopted by the most celebrated and orthodox divines both of the ancient and modern church.


  72. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orthodox" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accepted; acknowledged; admitted; anal; approved; authentic; authoritative; bourgeois; canonical; compulsive; concordant; conservative; conventional; correct; corresponding; customary; decent; decorous; dour; evangelical; faithful; firm; formal; formalistic; fundamentalist; hard; harmonious; hidebound; inexorable; inflexible; iron; ironbound; ironclad; kosher; literal; meet; normal; obdurate; obstinate; orthodox; pedantic; plastic; proper; puritanical; reactionary; received; recognized; regular; relentless; right; rigid; rigorous; rockbound; scriptural; seemly; sound; square; standard; stiff; straight; stubborn; stuffy; textual; traditional; true; typical; unbending; uncompromising; unrelenting; unyielding