An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
TENET
dogma, tenet
(noun) a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
tenet (plural tenets)
An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.
Anagrams
• etten
Source: Wiktionary
Ten"et, n. Etym: [L. tenet he holds, fr. tenere to hold. See Tenable.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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