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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tenet \Ten"et\, noun [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) 2.0 [wn]:
tenet
noun: a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof [syn: {dogma}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
45 Moby Thesaurus words for "tenet": a belief, article of faith, axiom, belief, canon, code, commandment, convention, conviction, credo, creed, dictum, doctrine, dogma, form, formula, general principle, golden rule, guideline, guiding principle, idea, ideology, imperative, law, maxim, mitzvah, moral, norm, opinion, ordinance, persuasion, position, precept, principium, principle, regulation, rubric, rule, settled principle, standard, teaching, view, viewpoint, working principle, working rule
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