doctrine
IPA: dˈɑktrʌn
noun
- (countable) A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.
- (countable and uncountable) The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group, or text.
- (countable) A self-imposed policy governing some aspect of a country's foreign relations, especially regarding what sort of behavior it will or will not tolerate from other countries.
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Examples of "doctrine" in Sentences
- The Bible is the doctrine.
- The first restates the doctrine.
- The person restates the doctrine.
- This is the doctrine of indispensability.
- But the strict sabbatarian doctrine spreads.
- This is the same as the doctrine of Purgatory.
- But the the strict sabbatarian doctrine spread.
- The doctrine serves the man, not the man the doctrine.
- This doctrine expresses the belief in one 'indivisible' God.
- From this belief came the first evidence of the doctrine of imminence.
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