Both Uses
doctrine
in
Anne Of Green Gables
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- Mrs. Lynde says he isn't perfect, but she says she supposes we couldn't expect a perfect minister for seven hundred and fifty dollars a year, and anyhow his theology is sound because she questioned him thoroughly on all the points of doctrine.†
p. 166.2 *
- Mrs. Lynde says that sound doctrine in the man and good housekeeping in the woman make an ideal combination for a minister's family.†
p. 166.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(doctrine) a belief (or system of beliefs or principles) accepted as authoritative by some group
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)