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Synonyms for tenets

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

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Définition of tenets

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 :
  • Maltravers, despite his own tenets, was delighted with her reply.
  • Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • These are my tenets, my lovely friend; and which I think cannot well be disputed.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns
  • The Sandemanians were super-Calvinists, and their tenets may be summarily defined.
  • Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
  • How then, without a word of explanation, could Plato assign to them the refutation of their own tenets?
  • Extract from : « Parmenides » by Plato
  • It was one of the tenets of the committee that where possible the poor should help the poor.
  • Extract from : « The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 » by Various
  • They had no tenets or theories other than those of personal clarification.
  • Extract from : « Adventures in the Arts » by Marsden Hartley
  • The examination of tenets and of facts was reserved for another generation.
  • Extract from : « A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland » by Samuel Johnson
  • They held firmly to the tenets of their religion, but this religion was extremely simple.
  • Extract from : « The New World of Islam » by Lothrop Stoddard
  • Such were the tenets of his quiet pugnacity of faith in human beings.
  • Extract from : « Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati » by Warren C. Herrick
  • They insisted upon p. 139distinguishing between the tenets of Jansen and Calvinism.
  • Extract from : « Pascal » by John Tulloch

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