Meaning

In a correct or proper way; conventionally; correctly..

Definitions by Sense

1. In a correct or proper way; conventionally; correctly.
2. In a religiously orthodox way; in accordance with accepted religious doctrine.

Example Sentences

if, after a season of thoughtlessness, you perceive your understanding on a sudden lively to discern, and your will vigorous to pursue heavenly things, you may orthodoxly conclude there has been an effusion, not that there is one now.

Biology is orthodoxly the part of science that deals directly with the phenomena of living matter.

So great was Ariel’s success and that of the similar Disraeli that readers might have expected Maurois to treat Shelley's friend and fellow-poet in the same style. But no miniature in enamel is this orthodoxly lengthy, appendixed, annotated biography of Byron.

He wears a turban, he puts on his sandal mark every morning, he bathes and eats and marries and dies orthodoxly; he probably begets children orthodoxly.

The teaching here is orthodoxly Islamic, the preoccupation with assessing the relation of works to faith is very much of the European fifteenth century.

Word Forms

• more orthodoxly
• most orthodoxly

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Use orthodoxly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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