All 5 Uses of
orthodox
in
This Side of Paradise
- the visitors ... took great pleasure in shocking them with unorthodox remarks.
Chpt 1.2 *unorthodox = different than what is commonly thoughtstandard 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.
- A radical comes down and shocks The atheistic orthodox?†
Chpt 1.3
- I confess that the war instead of making me orthodox, which is the correct reaction, has made me a passionate agnostic.†
Chpt 1.4
- There were men like Wells and Plato, who had, half unconsciously, a strange, hidden orthodoxy, who would accept for themselves only what could be accepted for all men—incurable romanticists who never, for all their efforts, could enter the labyrinth as stark souls; there were on the other hand sword-like pioneering personalities, Samuel Butler, Renan, Voltaire, who progressed much slower, yet eventually much further, not in the direct pessimistic line of speculative philosophy but…†
Chpt 2.5
- The idea was strong in him that there was a certain intrinsic lack in those to whom orthodox religion was necessary, and religion to Amory meant the Church of Rome.†
Chpt 2.5
Definition:
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(orthodox) normal (describing thinking or behavior as commonly or traditionally accepted)