TENET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tenet mean? 

• TENET (noun)
  The noun TENET has 1 sense:

1. a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof

  Familiarity information: TENET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

dogma; tenet

Hypernyms ("tenet" is a kind of...):

church doctrine; creed; gospel; religious doctrine (the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tenet"):

article of faith; credendum ((Christianity) any of the sections into which a creed or other statement of doctrine is divided)

 Context examples 

Combined with a previous study from the DeBerardinis lab that showed activated glucose oxidation in tumors, the results of this study are challenging the tenets of the Warburg effect.

(Study Challenges Long-Standing Concept in Cancer Metabolism, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It was the cardinal tenet of their mode of reasoning to start with facts and to give names to the facts.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It has been a bedrock tenet of geophysics that Earth's liquid outer core has always been the source of the dynamo that generates its magnetic field.

(Earth's mantle, not its core, may have generated planet's early magnetic field, National Science Foundation)

She instructed her daughter in the tenets of her religion and taught her to aspire to higher powers of intellect and an independence of spirit forbidden to the female followers of Muhammad.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I shall devote myself for a time to the examination of the Roman Catholic dogmas, and to a careful study of the workings of their system: if I find it to be, as I half suspect it is, the one best calculated to ensure the doing of all things decently and in order, I shall embrace the tenets of Rome and probably take the veil.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)