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Synonyms for tenet

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ten-it; British also tee-nit
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɛn ɪt; British also ˈti nɪt

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Définition of tenet

Origin :
  • "principle," properly "a thing held (to be true)," early 15c., from Latin tenet "he holds," third person singular present indicative of tenere "to hold, to keep, to maintain" from PIE root *ten- "to stretch" (cf. Sanskrit tantram "loom," tanoti "stretches, lasts;" Persian tar "string;" Lithuanian tankus "compact," i.e. "tightened;" Greek teinein "to stretch," tasis "a stretching, tension," tenos "sinew," tetanos "stiff, rigid," tonos "string," hence "sound, pitch;" Latin tendere "to stretch," tenuis "thin, rare, fine;" Old Church Slavonic tento "cord;" Old English thynne "thin"). Connection notion between "stretch" and "hold" is "to cause to maintain." The modern sense is probably because tenet was used in Medieval Latin to introduce a statement of doctrine.
  • noun belief, principle
Example sentences :
  • He was as unconscious, almost, as he had been back there in Tenet's cabin after his fall.
  • Extract from : « Mayflower (Flor de mayo) » by Vicente Blasco Ibez
  • Was it something in a cast of character or a tenet of a creed, or was it what any one could emulate?
  • Extract from : « The Letter of the Contract » by Basil King
  • The tenet of predestination was the keystone of his religion.
  • Extract from : « The History of England from the Accession of James II. » by Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • This tenet of his religion he infused in some measure into all his novels.
  • Extract from : « Australian Writers » by Desmond Byrne
  • You will be surprised to know that many an Islamic tenet is entirely in accord with it.
  • Extract from : « Notes on Islam » by Ahmed Hussain
  • But the new academy dogmatized in their scepticism, and held it as their tenet.
  • Extract from : « Novum Organum » by Francis Bacon
  • The Major adhered rigorously to every tenet of the old school.
  • Extract from : « Why Joan? » by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
  • That no tenet should be believed to be of faith, unless the New Testament contains it.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Hugo Grotius » by Charles Butler
  • Oh, no, sir, this is a tenet held by the wisest and most admirable of men.
  • Extract from : « Figures of Earth » by James Branch Cabell
  • This was a certitude, the very faith of the Storks, a tenet which never was questioned.
  • Extract from : « Georges Guynemer » by Henry Bordeaux

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