Early feminists challenged the social and political orthodoxy of their time.
Ratzinger was seen in the Vatican as the "guardian of Catholic orthodoxy."
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Although the aims of these events were far from revolutionary, they gave the supporters of Francoist orthodoxy particular pause.
Nor has the return to political orthodoxy reduced corruption.
The inculcation of political orthodoxy and instruction of a more coercive nature was left strictly in the hands of the Party.
The militancy of sectarian party orthodoxy is fused with the militancy of rebellion against personal oppression.
There were local differences between the practice of the different churches long after there was a semblance of conformity and orthodoxy.
This much is social democratic orthodoxy.
This new sort of avant-garde promotes, not heterodoxy and modernist autonomization, but orthodoxy and dis-autonomization.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE►new
· By the late 1980s, then, a new moral orthodoxy in relation to blooddoping had been established.
VERB►challenge
· Critics raised their voices with the consciousness of challenging a ruling orthodoxy.· Students are encouraged to challenge orthodoxy, to be critical.
[countable, uncountable] an idea or set of ideas that is accepted by most people to be correct and right: He challenged the political orthodoxy of his time. These ideas have now become part of educational orthodoxy.