orthodoxly
/ˈɔːθədɒksli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a correct or proper way; conventionally; correctly.
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."
Etymology
From orthodox + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈɔːθədɒksli/
Inflected Forms
more orthodoxly (comparative)
most orthodoxly (superlative)