Both Uses of
doctrine
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- It was strange too that he found an arid pleasure in following up to the end the rigid lines of the doctrines of the church and penetrating into obscure silences only to hear and feel the more deeply his own condemnation.†
Chpt 3 *
- During all those years he had never heard from any of his masters a flippant word: it was they who had taught him christian doctrine and urged him to live a good life and, when he had fallen into grievous sin, it was they who had led him back to grace.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(doctrine) a belief (or system of beliefs or principles) accepted as authoritative by some group