All 3 Uses of
doctrine
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- I told them you were coming....It began with the socialist doctrine.†
Chpt 3.5
- You know their doctrine; crime is a protest against the abnormality of the social organisation and nothing more, and nothing more; no other causes admitted!†
Chpt 3.5
- All the doctrines, the ideas, the systems, with which Andrey Semyonovitch pestered him had no interest for him.†
Chpt 5.1 *
Definition:
a belief (or system of beliefs or principles) accepted as authoritative by some group