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het·er·o·dox  audio  (htr--dks) KEY 

ADJECTIVE:
  1. Not in agreement with accepted beliefs, especially in church doctrine or dogma.
  2. Holding unorthodox opinions.
ETYMOLOGY:
Greek heterodoxos : hetero-, hetero- + doxa, opinion (from dokein, to think; see dek- in Indo-European roots)


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