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dogma
[ dawg-muh, dog- ]
noun
- an official system of principles or tenets concerning faith, morals, behavior, etc., as of a church.
Synonyms: philosophy, doctrine
- a specific tenet or doctrine authoritatively laid down, as by a church:
the dogma of the Assumption;
the recently defined dogma of papal infallibility.
- prescribed doctrine proclaimed as unquestionably true by a particular group:
the difficulty of resisting political dogma.
- a settled or established opinion, belief, or principle:
the classic dogma of objectivity in scientific observation.
Synonyms: certainty, conviction
dogma
/ ˈdɒɡmə /
noun
- a religious doctrine or system of doctrines proclaimed by ecclesiastical authority as true
- a belief, principle, or doctrine or a code of beliefs, principles, or doctrines
Marxist dogma
dogma
- A teaching or set of teachings laid down by a religious group, usually as part of the essential beliefs of the group.
Notes
Word History and Origins
Origin of dogma1
Word History and Origins
Origin of dogma1
Example Sentences
The dogma that a plant cell wall is a thick, more or less permanent barrier “basically disappears with this study.”
We’ve let our intuition and dogma kind of bias us to the point where we might be missing a lot of important biology.
Michel and Nonardo were discriminated against by society and the dictatorship that governs the country and represses anyone who does not agree with its dogmas.
For Japan, part of the protective dogma has been the idea that the virus is spread most perniciously when people speak loudly or shout.
Andrew Yang agrees with this diagnosis — but not with the rest of the economic dogma.
Satirists occupy a perilous position—to skewer dogma and cant, and to antagonize the establishment while needing its protection.
Had Herx said “this dogma is sexist,” that would be well beyond the reach of the courts.
The Liberal Democrats believe drugs policy should be based on evidence, not dogma or the desire to sound tough.
Democrats and independents who oppose their dogma are infidels.
She says she was released when she feigned acceptance of their dogma.
Such are the ideas which the dogma of gratuitous predestination gives of Divinity!
The fear of ceasing to be is but an evil for the imagination, which alone brought forth the dogma of another life.
It must be made perfectly clear, said the bishop, that Christianity was a religion, and not a dietetic dogma.
How do they reason upon a dogma, and quarrel with acrimony about a system of which even themselves can comprehend nothing?
The dogma of the immortality of the soul, or of a future life, presents nothing consoling in the Christian religion.
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