All 21 Uses of
orthodox
in
1984 by Orwell
- It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.
p. 10..5unorthodoxy = beliefs or behavior that are not commonly acceptedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unorthodoxy means not and reverses the meaning of orthodoxy. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Much more it was because of a secretly held belief — or perhaps not even a belief, merely a hope — that O'Brien's political orthodoxy was not perfect.
p. 11..3orthodoxy = belief in commonly accepted ideas
- And again, perhaps it was not even unorthodoxy that was written in his face, but simply intelligence.
p. 11..3unorthodoxy = beliefs that are not commonly acceptedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unorthodoxy means not and reverses the meaning of orthodoxy. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy.
p. 24..5unorthodoxy = beliefs or behavior that are not commonly acceptedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unorthodoxy means not and reverses the meaning of orthodoxy. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- In an intellectual way, Syme was venomously orthodox.
p. 49..5orthodox = believed in commonly accepted (and acceptable) ideas
- It had been on the tip of his tongue to say 'Except the proles,' but he checked himself, not feeling fully certain that this remark was not in some way unorthodox.
p. 52..9unorthodox = in violation of what is commonly acceptedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unorthodox means not and reverses the meaning of orthodox. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think.
p. 53..3 *orthodoxy = conforming to commonly accepted beliefs and behaviors
- Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
p. 53..4
- Whatever it was, you could be certain that every word of it was pure orthodoxy, pure Ingsoc.
p. 54..4orthodoxy = commonly accepted beliefs that are supposed to be accepted without question
- You could not say that he was unorthodox.
p. 55..1unorthodox = not conforming to what is commonly acceptedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unorthodox means not and reverses the meaning of orthodox. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Orthodoxy was unconsciousness.
p. 55..6orthodoxy = conforming to commonly accepted beliefs and behaviors
- Meaning naturally orthodox, incapable of thinking a bad thought?
p. 132..2orthodox = conforming to commonly accepted/acceptable beliefs and behaviors
- There was a direct intimate connexion between chastity and political orthodoxy.
p. 133..5orthodoxy = conformity to commonly accepted beliefs and behaviors
- Katharine would unquestionably have denounced him to the Thought Police if she had not happened to be too stupid to detect the unorthodoxy of his opinions.
p. 133..9unorthodoxy = unusual and unacceptable naturestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unorthodoxy means not and reverses the meaning of orthodoxy. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- It struck him as a curious fact that he had never heard a member of the Party singing alone and spontaneously. It would even have seemed slightly unorthodox, a dangerous eccentricity, like talking to oneself.
p. 142..1unorthodox = unusualstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unorthodox means not and reverses the meaning of orthodox. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Talking to her, he realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant.
p. 156..6orthodoxy = conforming to commonly accepted beliefs and behaviors
- Talking to her, he realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant.
p. 156..6
- If he is a person naturally orthodox (in Newspeak a goodthinker), he will in all circumstances know, without taking thought, what is the true belief or the desirable emotion.
p. 211..6orthodox = thinking and behaving in the common, acceptable way
- On the contrary, orthodoxy in the full sense demands a control over one's own mental processes as complete as that of a contortionist over his body.
p. 212..3orthodoxy = conforming to commonly accepted beliefs and behaviors
- To make sure that all written records agree with the orthodoxy of the moment is merely a mechanical act.
p. 214..0orthodoxy = acceptable beliefs
- It is learned by the majority of Party members, and certainly by all who are intelligent as well as orthodox.
p. 214..3orthodox = normal (describing thinking or behavior as commonly or traditionally accepted)
Definition:
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(orthodox) normal (describing thinking or behavior as commonly or traditionally accepted)