All 10 Uses
tenet
in
An American Tragedy
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- You can address me, if you will, as HARRY TENET, General Delivery, Chicago I'll call for it in a few days.†
Chpt 2 *
- My name's Tenet, Harry Tenet.†
Chpt 2
- My name's Tenet, Harry Tenet.†
Chpt 2
- And, even more incriminating, a third bundle, consisting of eleven letters from his mother, the first two addressed to Harry Tenet, care of general delivery, Chicago—a most suspicious circumstance on the surface—whereas the others of the bundle were addressed to Clyde Griffiths, not only care of the Union League, Chicago, but to Lycurgus.†
Chpt 3
- Those two years in which he wandered here and there, not writing, passing as Harry Tenet.†
Chpt 3
- "Anyhow was that the reason after you got away that you changed your name to Tenet as you told me?" continued.†
Chpt 3
- By the way, just where did you get that name of Tenet, Clyde?†
Chpt 3
- No, sir—I thought there were lots of Tenets.†
Chpt 3tenets = important beliefs that are part of a larger framework of beliefs
- "Then you went about in Alton, Peoria, Bloomington, Milwaukee, and Chicago—hiding away in small rooms in back streets and working as a dishwasher or soda fountain man, or a driver, and changing your name to Tenet when you really might have gone back to Kansas City and resumed your old place?" continued Jephson.†
Chpt 3
- An exhorter—a secret preacher—one, who in defiance of all the tenets and processes of organized and historic, as well as hieratic, religious powers and forms (theological seminaries, organized churches and their affiliations and product—all carefully and advisedly and legitimately because historically and dogmatically interpreting the word of God) choosing to walk forth and without ordination after any fashion conduct an unauthorized and hence nondescript mission.†
Chpt 3tenets = important beliefs that are part of a larger framework of beliefs
Definitions:
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(1)
(tenet) an important belief that is part of a larger framework of beliefs
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)