tenet
['tenit]
n. , 教, 宗,



tenet
[ noun ]
a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof
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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}.