tenet
- any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.
Origin of tenet
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Related Words for tenet
faith, credo, presumption, creed, precept, dogma, assumption, doctrine, teaching, impression, persuasion, conception, conviction, canon, profession, system, rule, maxim, thesis, positionExamples from the Web for tenet
Contemporary Examples of tenet
Charter schools, rejecting the tenet of promotion through seniority, promised to do better.
When asked about the remarks, Tenet said he never said it and suggested the note taker in the meeting got it wrong.
Tenet had wanted to evacuate the center, but Black rebuffed him.
"Well, they could die," Tenet remembers telling Black about his staff.
An accountability board, the summary recommended, should review the work of named officers, including former director Tenet.
Historical Examples of tenet
He was as unconscious, almost, as he had been back there in Tenet's cabin after his fall.
Mayflower (Flor de mayo)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?
The Letter of the ContractBasil King
The tenet of predestination was the keystone of his religion.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.Thomas Babington Macaulay
This tenet of his religion he infused in some measure into all his novels.
Australian WritersDesmond Byrne
You will be surprised to know that many an Islamic tenet is entirely in accord with it.
Notes on IslamAhmed Hussain
tenet
- a belief, opinion, or dogma
Word Origin for tenet
Word Origin and History for tenet
"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.