All 3 Uses
precept
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The Chrysalids
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- The commandments and precepts one learns as a child can be remembered by rote, but they mean little until there is example — and, even then, the example needs to be recognized.†
Chpt 1precepts = rules for behavior
- Not until I had reached the bank and was making my homeward way along the top of it did the monotonous Sunday precepts join up with reality.†
Chpt 1 *
- Most of the numerous precepts, arguments, and examples in Ethics were condensed for us into this: the duty and purpose of man in this world is to fight unceasingly against the evils that Tribulation loosed upon it.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(precept) a rule for behavior -- especially a shared moral doctrine
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)