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deviating from commonly accepted beliefs or practices
- a Christian clergyman with a very heterodox opinion on the divinity of Jesus
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not rigidly following established form, custom, or rules
- her heterodox approach to teaching science initially met with some resistance from her peers
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The first known use of heterodox was circa 1650
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