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Orthopraxy
Or′tho-praxˊy
,Noun.
[Gr.
ὀρθόσ
straight + [GREEK] a doing.] (Med.)
The treatment of deformities in the human body by mechanical appliances.
Definition 2024
orthopraxy
orthopraxy
English
Noun
orthopraxy (uncountable)
- Correct practice or action
- Right belief combined with right practice, with the emphasis being on the latter, a term specially used in Latin American liberation theology, often in contrast with an orthodoxy seen as insufficiently interested in the practical and political content of faith.