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Definition
a belief (or system of beliefs or principles) accepted as authoritative by some group
- Mr. Stelling's doctrine was of no particular school; if anything, it had a tinge of evangelicalism, for that was "the telling thing" just then in the diocese to which King's Lorton belonged.2.1 -- Book 2 Chapter 1 -- Tom's "First Half" (11% in)
- Each vacation he brought home a new book or two, indicating his progress through different stages of history, Christian doctrine, and Latin literature; and that passage was not entirely without results, besides the possession of the books.2.7 -- Book 2 Chapter 7 -- The Golden Gates Are Passed (22% in)
- If, in the maiden days of the Dodson sisters, their Bibles opened more easily at some parts than others, it was because of dried tulip-petals, which had been distributed quite impartially, without preference for the historical, devotional, or doctrinal.4.1 -- Book 4 Chapter 1 -- A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet (54% in)
- And now—without the indirect charm of school-emulation—Telemaque was mere bran; so were the hard, dry questions on Christian Doctrine; there was no flavor in them, no strength.4.3 -- Book 4 Chapter 3 -- A Voice from the Past (36% in)
- She knew nothing of doctrines and systems, of mysticism or quietism; but this voice out of the far-off middle ages was the direct communication of a human soul's belief and experience, and came to Maggie as an unquestioned message.4.3 -- Book 4 Chapter 3 -- A Voice from the Past (72% in)
- "Well, then, Dr. Kenn has been preaching against buckram, and you ladies have all been sending him a roundrobin, saying, 'This is a hard doctrine; who can bear it?'6.1 -- Book 6 Chapter 1 -- A Duet in Paradise (16% in)
There are no more uses of "doctrine" in The Mill on the Floss.
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