heterodoxy

At 24 Debs was elected Terre Haute city clerk, where the extent of his heterodoxy was waiving criminal fines against prostitutes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

“This is a worldwide, but certainly American, trend toward heterodoxy — toward individuals cooking up their own spiritual or religious stew and cooking it up their way,” Burklo said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2019

Likewise, the contest isn’t a race between a liberal or a moderate, or between heterodoxy and orthodoxy.

From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2017

At its peak, broadcast TV was derided for its shallowness, for its crass commercialism, for the way it celebrated conformity and rejected heterodoxy, and mostly for often not being very creative or entertaining.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2017

If, then, the theologian uses reason as a weapon against heterodoxy, upon what ground can he object to its being employed by another?

From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Thomas Inman

But there are all sorts of complexities and heterodoxies that are suffocated by uncomplicated embrace.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2022

To some degree, “populism” is another word for heterodoxies that seem doomed to fail.

From Economist ● Jul. 20, 2017

I stayed because I was incredibly curious and thought at least I could work on my novel, a Western set in “the American subconscious,” a Jungian wonderland of heterodoxies.

From Salon ● May 31, 2015

Who will be courageous enough to confront the public with such brave heterodoxies as “Not all cultures are equally conducive to human flourishing”? The Intellectual Dark Web, that’s who.

From Slate

Poor man, it had turned out he could not get his Academy Diploma, after all,—owing again to intricacies and heterodoxies.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Thomas Carlyle