| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers | | Section V. Religious Affections | | 2. Religious Doctrines |
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| 983a. Orthodoxy. |
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| NOUN: | ORTHODOXY; strictness, soundness, religious truth, true faith; truth [See Truth]; soundness of doctrine.
Christianity, Christianism; Catholicism, Catholicity; “the faith once delivered to the saints”; hyperorthodoxy [See Heterodoxy].
THE CHURCH, Holy Church, Church Militant, Church Triumphant; Catholic -, Universal -, Apostolic -, Established- Church; the Bride of the Lamb; temple of the Holy Ghost; Church -, body -, members -, disciples -, followers- of Christ; Christians.
true believer; textualist, textuary; canonist (theologian) [See Theology]; the Orthodox; Christian community; Christendom, collective body of Christians.
CANONS (belief) [See Belief]; thirty-nine articles; Apostles’ -, Nicene -, Athanasian- Creed; Church Catechism.
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| ADJECTIVE: | ORTHODOX, sound, strict, faithful, catholic, schismless, Christian, evangelical, scriptural, literal, divine, mono theistic, theistic; true [See Truth]; true blue.
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| QUOTATIONS: | - Of the true faith.
- Ever the fiery Pentecost Girds with one flame the countless host.—Emerson
- Odinism was valor; Christianism was humility, another kind of valor.—Carlyle
- Prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks.—Butler
- Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy another man’s doxy.—Warburton
- Orthodoxy is the Bourbon of the world of thought; it learns not, neither can it forget.—Huxley
- The Church … the world-tree of the nations for so long!—Carlyle
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