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Webster 1913 Edition

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
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Tenet

TEN'ET

,
Noun.
[L. tenet, he holds.] Any opinion, principle, dogma or doctrine which a person believes or maintains as true; as the tenets of Plato or of Cicero. The tenets of christians are adopted from the Scriptures; but different interpretations give rise to a great diversity of tenets.

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