Definition of tenet

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Tenet (n.) Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero..

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Belief :: Belief (n.) A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed..
Doctrine :: Doctrine (n.) That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances..
Ranterism :: Ranterism (n.) The practice or tenets of the Ranters.
Sabellianism :: Sabellianism (n.) The doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n..
Secessionism :: Secessionism (n.) The doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists.
Skepticism :: Skepticism (n.) The doctrine that no fact or principle can be certainly known; the tenet that all knowledge is uncertain; Pyrrohonism; universal doubt; the position that no fact or truth, however worthy of confidence, can be established on philosophical grounds; critical investigation or inquiry, as opposed to the positive assumption or assertion of certain principles..
Sabellian :: Sabellian (a.) Pertaining to the doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n..
Paradox :: Paradox (n.) A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion; an assertion or sentiment seemingly contradictory, or opposed to common sense; that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact..
Orangeism :: Orangeism (n.) Attachment to the principles of the society of Orangemen; the tenets or practices of the Orangemen.
Principle :: Principle (v. t.) To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill..
Dissenter :: Dissenter (n.) One who separates from the service and worship of an established church; especially, one who disputes the authority or tenets of the Church of England; a nonconformist..
Jaina :: "Jaina (n.) One of a numerous sect in British India, holding the tenets of Jainism..
Sabbatarianism :: Sabbatarianism (n.) The tenets of Sabbatarians.
Donatism :: Donatism (n.) The tenets of the Donatists.
Arianize :: Arianize (v. i.) To admit or accept the tenets of the Arians; to become an Arian.
Materialism :: Materialism (n.) The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets.
Paradoxical :: Paradoxical (a.) Inclined to paradoxes, or to tenets or notions contrary to received opinions..
Socinianism :: Socinianism (n.) The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus, an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personality of the Devil, the native and total depravity of man, the vicarious atonement, and the eternity of future punishment. His theory was, that Christ was a man divinely commissioned, who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary; that human sin was the imitation of Adam's sin, and that human salvation was the imitat
Sabbatarian :: Sabbatarian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Sabbath, or the tenets of Sabbatarians..
Dogma :: Dogma (n.) That which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine.
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