Tenet

Definition of Tenet

Ten´et
n.1.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.

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a belief, article of faith, axiom, canon, code, commandment, convention, conviction, credo, dictum, form, formula, general principle, golden rule, guideline, guiding principle, idea, ideology, imperative, law, maxim, mitzvah, moral, norm, opinion, ordinance, persuasion, position, principium, principle, regulation, rubric, rule, settled principle, standard, teaching, view, viewpoint, working principle, working rule
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