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an important belief that is part of a larger framework of beliefs- Freedom of speech is a particularly American tenet.
tenet = principle belief
- A central tenet of the religion is non-violence and respect of all forms of life.
- Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- The week before he came, we'd had a famous theologian whose words sent the students scurrying to their rooms to hassle half the night. But Caleb was like a cool wind from the north... No great theological problems. No debatable tenets. He spoke simply of...Margaret Craven -- I Heard the Owl Call My Name
- It was the cardinal tenet of their mode of reasoning to start with facts and to give names to the facts.London, Jack -- Martin Eden
- For a writer of his peculiar philosophic tenets, at all events, the world itself, in truth, must seem irretrievably old or even decadent.Pater, Walter Horatio -- The Guardian
- This gentleman and Mr Thwackum scarce ever met without a disputation; for their tenets were indeed diametrically opposite to each other.Fielding, Henry -- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet—a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's curriculum.George F. Will
- —morality might reproach me, according to the old routine, for disposing of my life without permission—or whatever its tenet may be.Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- The Idiot
- Yet he could have breasted all these things in some way, if the central tenet of his heart had not been ravaged.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- Great Universities proceeded in a Hegelian fashion and any school which could not accept a thesis contradicting its fundamental tenets was in a rut.Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Between them, Scarlett and Rhett had outraged every tenet of this code.Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
- Pollard knew that what he was asking his friend to do went against every tenet of reinsmanship.Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
- This had been a tenet of her beliefs since she was a child.Cassandra Clare -- City of Fallen Angels
- "The secret hides within" was the core tenet of the mysteries, urging man kind to seek God not in the heavens above .... but rather within himself.Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
- But for the first time since he had met Leo, he rejoiced in his own tenets.Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
- If he's converted to some religion that is now claiming that organ donation is part of its tenets, we submit to this court that it's pure bunk.Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
- Like every race, we adhere to a wide range of tenets, and, as a result, we often arrive at differing conclusions, even in identical situations.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- Have we forgotten our founders and the basic tenets of their blueprint for the country?J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
- Pea had been faithful to his tenets, whereas he had not.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
tenet = principle belief
tenet = important belief
tenets = important beliefs that is part of a larger framework of beliefs
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