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doctrine
/ˈdɑk.tɹɪn/
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What does doctrine mean?
noun
- A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.
- The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group, or text.
- A self-imposed policy governing some aspect of a country's foreign relations, especially regarding what sort of behavior it will or will not tolerate from other countries.
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How shall they credit A poor unlearned virgin, when the schools, Embowell’d of their doctrine, have let off The danger to itself?
Whenever the Goncourts give us an idea, an opinion, or a doctrine, it is as well to be wary in accepting it.
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The old doctrine that submission is the very best cure for outrage and wrong, does not hold good on the slave plantation.
To be a faithful Fourierist, in fact, one must abandon his reason and accept every thing from a master,--doctrine, interpretation, and application.
Become a mere agency for the supply of information, the press has renounced all endeavour to enforce an idea or a doctrine.