英语词汇“tenet”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

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tenet

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tenet
(ˈtɛnɪt, † ˈtiːnɪt)
[a. L. tenet ‘he holds’, 3 sing. of tenēre to hold. See also tenent n.
Prob. adopted from mod.Latin writings, in which it introduced the opinion or doctrine that a person, church, or sect holds. Cf. similar use of habitat, incipit, explicit.]
A doctrine, dogma, principle, or opinion, in religion, philosophy, politics, or the like, held by a school, sect, party, or person.
a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. iv. §3 (1622) 230 And this..is not onely his owne particular opinion..; but the generall Tenet, of all the Philosophers.a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) Summary 3/2 The Church of Englands Tenet, that no salvation, but by Christ alone.1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Tenet, or Tenent, a Doctrine, or Opinion.1791Burke App. Whigs Wks. VI. 210 The practical consequences of any political tenet go a great way in deciding upon its value.1858Buckle Civiliz. (1869) II. i. 51 The liberality of every sect depends, not at all on its avowed tenets but on the circumstances in which it is placed.
b. More trivially: Any opinion held.
1630R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlem. (1641) 288 My tenet is, ‘one cannot truely love, and not be wise’.1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. lxxvii. (1674) 102 You have infinitely verified the Tenet which all the Literati have of you.1742Lond. & Country Brew. i. (ed. 4) 42 Vouching it to be a true Tenet, that, if Hops are boiled above thirty Minutes, the Wort will have some or more of their worser Quality.c1765Gray Satire 28 The Master of Benet Is of the like tenet.

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