orthodoxissimus

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Latin

Etymology

From orthodoxus +‎ -issimus.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /or.tʰo.dokˈsis.si.mus/, [ɔrt̪ʰɔd̪ɔkˈs̠ɪs̠ːɪmʊs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /or.to.dokˈsis.si.mus/, [ort̪od̪okˈsisːimus]

Adjective

orthodoxissimus (superlative, feminine orthodoxissima, neuter orthodoxissimum); first/second declension

superlative degree of orthodoxus
- 1826, Robert Mackenzie Beverley, Horrida hystrix, satyricon Castoreanum; quod ex schedis MSS. deprompsit unus e societate Lollardorum deprompsit civis Beverlacensis, page 41:
  At enim si offendunt Methodistæ contra ecclesiæ canones, ut ait venerabilis Archidiaconus, consimili ratione et nos etiam eodem crimine arguimur: nemo enim plus quam Sacerdos canones infringit aut infractis insultat; ita ut non vel orthodoxissimus aliquis negare possit nostrorum excesisse plures a regula disciplinæ.
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- 1841, Theophanes (Confessor), Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae: Theophanis Chronographia, page 277:
  ... super multos praeterea optimos mores suos, cum pius et orthodoxissimus esset , tristabatur super his qui a sancta scindebantur ecclesia quacunque occasione sive rationabili sive irrationabili […]
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- 1846, Emanuel Swedenborg, Continuatio de ultimo judicio et de mundo spirituali. Ad fidem editionis principis 1763 Amstelodami excusae denuo castigatius edidit ... J. F. I. Tafel, page 20:
  ... quia argumentationes ejus erant ingeniosae, et non visus est anguis in herba, Liber ille sicut orthodoxissimus receptus est.
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- 1865, Nicephorus Gregoras, Nicephori Gregorae Byzantinae historiae libri 37., page 765:
  Quare nec hæreticus Honorius, nec est proprie a synodo damnatus; sed et ipse orthodoxissimus [translating ορθόδοξότατός (orthódoxótatós)], et anathema illum non attingit.
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Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	orthodoxissimus	orthodoxissima	orthodoxissimum	orthodoxissimī	orthodoxissimae	orthodoxissima
genitive	orthodoxissimī	orthodoxissimae	orthodoxissimī	orthodoxissimōrum	orthodoxissimārum	orthodoxissimōrum
dative	orthodoxissimō	orthodoxissimae	orthodoxissimō	orthodoxissimīs
accusative	orthodoxissimum	orthodoxissimam	orthodoxissimum	orthodoxissimōs	orthodoxissimās	orthodoxissima
ablative	orthodoxissimō	orthodoxissimā	orthodoxissimō	orthodoxissimīs
vocative	orthodoxissime	orthodoxissima	orthodoxissimum	orthodoxissimī	orthodoxissimae	orthodoxissima