TENETS

Noun

tenets

plural of tenet

Anagrams

• set net, set-net, setnet, setten

Source: Wiktionary


TENET

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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