Tenet : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Tenet	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tenet n a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof Synonym(s): dogma, 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}.