Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Extreme orthodoxy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Orthodoxy pushed to excess.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Orthodoxy taken toexcess .
Etymologies
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hyper- + orthodoxy
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Examples
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We all stand on the Augsburg Confession, with the qualifications and moral restrictions defined in the accompanying resolutions, so that we are true Lutherans ... without hyperorthodoxy and exclusivism on the one hand or radicalism on the other. '
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