Crossword clues for unorthodoxy
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1704, from unorthodox + -y (4).
Wiktionary
n. Lack of orthodoxy; the quality or state of being unorthodox
WordNet
n. any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position [syn: heterodoxy, heresy] [ant: orthodoxy]
a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion [syn: heresy]
the quality of being unorthodox [syn: heterodoxy] [ant: orthodoxy]
Usage examples of "unorthodoxy".
Furnishing hotel interiors was vulgar hackwork unbefitting a real artist, but a real artist had to make a living, and the commonplaceness of such commissions could always be slightly offset by such flourishes of unorthodoxy as having it written into every contract that one suite of rooms should be fitted with green carnations instead of the more fashionable roses and amaranths and should always be available for his exclusive use.
Go back a few generations and you find all sorts of things happening in Baris that spell unorthodoxy.
Furnishing hotel interiors was vulgar hackwork unbefitting a real artist, but a real artist had to make a living, and the commonplaceness of such commissions could always be slightly offset by such flourishes of unorthodoxy as having it written into every contract that one suite of rooms should be fitted with green carnations instead of the more fashionable roses and amaranths and should always be available for his exclusive use.
So hot did our arguments become about this subject of the Church, for, as may be imagined, in the course of them I revealed some unorthodoxy, especially as regards the matter of our methods of Christianising Kaffirs, that I was extremely thankful when a diversion occurred which took me away from home.
She thought of all the unorthodoxies that she'd seen arise during her long life.
Unorthodoxy, creativity, venturesomeness were discouraged, for they interfered with the predictability required by the organization of its component parts.