Both Uses of
doctrine
in
Hard Times
- Albeit it was as much against the precepts of his school to wonder, as it was against the doctrines of the Gradgrind College.†
Chpt 2.7 *
- Mr. Sleary, who with his mouth open and his rolling eye as immovably jammed in his head as his fixed one, had listened to these doctrines with profound attention, here stepped forward.†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(doctrine) a belief (or system of beliefs or principles) accepted as authoritative by some group