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ORTHOLOGY

Right speech. A term used by those dissenter from Catholic teaching who claim that right doctrine (orthodoxy) is essentially a subjective experience. It should not, therefore, be identified with any formulation of dogma. Formulas of verbal doctrine, it is said, are quite changeable and unimportant.