praxes

Noun

praxis (countable and uncountable, plural praxes or praxises)

1. The practical application of any branch of learning.

   Synonyms:

   practice

   Antonyms:

   theory

2. The deliberate action of a rational being.
3. The synthesis of theory and practice, without presuming the primacy of either.
   • […] in the particular case of the proletarian consciousness, the social process and awareness of that process became one and the same, and knowledge of society coincided with the revolutionary praxis that transformed it.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in...
4. Custom or established practice.
5. An example or form of exercise, or a collection of such examples, for practice.