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   Tenet , n. [L. tenet he holds, fr. tenere to hold. See Tenable.] Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero.
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   That al animals of the land are in their kind in the sea, . . . is a tenet very questionable.
   Sir T. Browne.
   
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   The religious tenets of his family he had early renounced with contempt.
   Macaulay.
   
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   Syn. -- Dogma; doctrine; opinion; principle; position. See Dogma.
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