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Orthopraxy

Or′tho-praxˊy

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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)

  1. Correct practice or action
  2. 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.

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