Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Tenet"
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) 1.7 (wn)
tenet
n : a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without
proof [syn: {belief}, {dogma}]
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