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Definition

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.

tenet = principle belief

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

tenet = important belief

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

tenets = important beliefs that is part of a larger framework of beliefs

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

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