Word Meanings - HYPERORTHODOXY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Orthodoxy pushed to excess.

PUSHPIN
A child's game played with pins. L. Estrange.
PUSH BUTTON
A simple device, resembling a button in form, so arranged that pushing it closes an electric circuit, as of an electric bell.
PUSH
A pustule; a pimple. Bacon.
EXCESS
out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
EXCESSIVE
Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
ORTHODOXY
1. Soundness of faith; a belief in the doctrines taught in the Scriptures, or in some established standard of faith; -- opposed to heterodoxy or to heresy. Basil himself bears full and clear testimony to Gregory's orthodoxy. Waterland.
PUSHING
Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive. -- Push"ing*ly, adv.
PUSHER
One who, or that which, pushes.
HYPERORTHODOXY
Orthodoxy pushed to excess.