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.
- But Eager Ass, with what he's sent, Plays havoc with your best per cent. Still—still I meet you here and there... When Shakespeare's played you hold a chair, And some defunct, moth-eaten star Enchants the mental prig you are... A radical comes down and shocks The atheistic orthodox?†
Chpt 1.3orthodox = normal (describing thinking or behavior as commonly or traditionally accepted)
- 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 concerned in the eternal attempt to attach a positive value to life.... Amory stopped.†
Chpt 2.5orthodoxy = a commonly accepted belief or practice
- 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 2.5orthodox = normal (describing thinking or behavior as commonly or traditionally accepted)