noun
Rightness of action (as distinct from or in addition to rightness of thought); right-doing, practical righteousness; correct practice.
Now chiefly in contexts relating to the sociology and anthropology of religion.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Thomas Lynch (1818–1871), hymn writer and composer. From ortho- + prax- + -y, after orthodoxy.
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