Literary notes about orthodox (AI summary)
Literary works abound with the use of the term "orthodox" to indicate adherence to established customs or doctrines. In religious texts, it often designates groups conforming to traditional creeds, as when characters identify with a particular church or tradition ([1], [2], [3]), while in historical narratives it describes longstanding conventions within diverse cultural systems—from ritualistic customs ([4], [5]) to even counting classes of social groups ([6]). At times the word takes on an ironic or satirical twist, highlighting the tension between conformity and individual dissent ([7], [8], [9]), and in philosophical or scholarly contexts it marks the boundary of accepted principles ([10], [11]). Across these varied uses, "orthodox" continually functions as a marker for the normative—from religious practices to cultural and intellectual standards.
- My father belonged to the Orthodox Church....
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - His parents Moses and Scheindell, were strictly orthodox, and brought him up in the [433] straitest customs of strict Judaism.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein - No one knew what her faith was—Catholic, Protestant, or Orthodox.
— from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy - To this day the orthodox Israelites set beside their dead, before burial, the lighted candle and a basin of pure water.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway - We spent about two hundred rupees in performing Varuna japam on a grand scale in a strictly orthodox fashion.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston - The orthodox number of classes of Kammālans is five.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston - A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
— from George Bernard Shaw by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton - A radical comes down and shocks The atheistic orthodox?
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald - My concertina’s damp, and so there’s no music for you, my Orthodox brethren, or else I’d give you such a concert, my word!—Something marvellous!
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - We change no circumstance in the received orthodox system with regard to the will, but only in that with regard to material objects and causes.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume - In the orthodox systems of Hindu philosophy, to which we now turn, they find no place.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell
