All 10 Uses of
doctrine
in
1984 by Orwell
- Goldstein was delivering his usual venomous attack upon the doctrines of the Party —
p. 12..7doctrines = beliefs and principles
- Except where it touched upon her own life she had no interest in Party doctrine.
p. 131..6
- Yet she had only the dimmest idea of who Goldstein was and what doctrines he was supposed to represent.
p. 153..1
- In the ramifications of party doctrine she had not the faintest interest.
p. 156..1
- There then rose schools of thinkers who interpreted history as a cyclical process and claimed to show that inequality was the unalterable law of human life. This doctrine, of course, had always had its adherents, but in the manner in which it was now put forward there was a significant change.
p. 202..7doctrine = belief
- In the past the need for a hierarchical form of society had been the doctrine specifically of the High.
p. 202..8
- The new doctrines arose partly because of the accumulation of historical knowledge, and the growth of the historical sense, which had hardly existed before the nineteenth century.
p. 203..8doctrines = beliefs and principles
- Its rulers are not held together by blood-ties but by adherence to a common doctrine.
p. 209..3doctrine = system of beliefs and principles
- It is also that no change in doctrine or in political alignment can ever be admitted.
p. 213..3 *doctrine = beliefs and principles
- But you could share in that future if you kept alive the mind as they kept alive the body, and passed on the secret doctrine that two plus two make four.
p. 221..5doctrine = belief
Definition:
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(doctrine) a belief (or system of beliefs or principles) accepted as authoritative by some group