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normal (describing thinking or behavior as commonly or traditionally accepted)
- "Perhaps we're being too literal about this song," Mr. Wiggin interjected, but I knew there was no such thing as "too literal" for Owen Meany, who grasped orthodoxy from wherever it could be found.p. 171.2
- The solution, the Rev. Dudley Wiggin proposed, was" to omit the fifth verse of "We Three Kings," but Owen denounced this as unorthodox.p. 172.8
There are no more uses of "orthodox" in A Prayer for Owen Meany.
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