doctrinal

Speech parts

1. doctrinal - Noun

2. doctrinal - Adjective

Meaning

Pertaining to, or containing, doctrine or something taught and to be believed; as, a doctrinal observation.

Pertaining to, or having to do with, teaching.

A matter of doctrine; also, a system of doctrines.

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Examples

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace. Benito Mussolini

When people are uncertain about what is right and what is wrong, and anxious about being considered old-fashioned, it seems to be worse than folly that Christians are still arguing about doctrinal matters which can only bring needless distress to a number of people. Charles III

There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it. Hosea Ballou

Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge. Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

All revolutions are doctrinal - such as the French one, or the one that introduced Christianity. G. K. Chesterton

[T]he supremacy of the Brahmins maintains doctrinal orthodoxy; the revolt of the Kshatriyas leads to heterodoxy; but with the domination of the lower castes comes intellectual night, and this is what in our day has become of a West that threatens to spread its own darkness over the entire world. René Guénon

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