Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A doctrine, principle, or position held as part of a philosophy, religion, or field of endeavor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any opinion, principle, dogma, or doctrine which a person, school, or sect holds or maintains as true.
- noun Synonyms Precept. Dogma, etc. See
doctrine .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
opinion ,belief , orprinciple held to be true by someone or especially an organization.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Like most major religions, my main tenet is to treat other people the way I would like them to treat me.
Think Progress » In 2005, Exxon CEO Raked in 190K a Day 2006
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#109 – …. my main tenet is to treat other people the way I would like them to treat me.
Think Progress » In 2005, Exxon CEO Raked in 190K a Day 2006
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He does not share the main tenet of ID, that God directly intervenes in the design of life.
Blast From the Past 2010
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Nevertheless, anti-Semitism is not the main tenet of Hamas ideology.
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He does not share the main tenet of ID, that God directly intervenes in the design of life.
Blast From the Past 2010
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In other words, he does not insist that ID's central tenet is that life is "the result of a series of supernatural acts, involving God's direct intervention in the course of nature, each of which involved the suspension of natural law."
Blast From the Past 2010
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The book pushes an agenda of choice (which can be code for vouchers), but the essential tenet is that when you look more closely at many middle and upper class schools, you find a lot that needs improvement, and fast.
Lesley Chilcott: Books I Couldn't put Down Lesley Chilcott 2010
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My racism/religion explanation was mainly regarding his posts, and only meant to respond to you insofar as you claimed I must see a certain tenet believed by some Jews as racist (and let me add, as you might say, you do not know me well enough to that prediction).
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Your blatant evasion of the main tenet of my assertion proves to me that you do not understand the basics of the Constitution.
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He does not share the main tenet of ID, that God directly intervenes in the design of life.
Blast From the Past 2010
whichbe commented on the word tenet
Does anyone else find it odd, based on the events of the Iraq War, that this is the last name of the director of the C.I.A. who assured us there were Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq?
November 27, 2008