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tenet |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tenet \Ten"et\, n. [L. tenet he holds fr tenere to hold See {Tenable}.] Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as the tenets of Plato or of Cicero. That al animals of the land are in their kind in the sea, . . . is a tenet very questionable. --Sir T. Browne. The religious tenets of his family he had early renounced with contempt. --Macaulay. Syn: Dogma; doctrine; opinion; principle; position. See {Dogma}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: tenet n : a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof [syn: {belief}, {dogma}]
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