doctrine

Noun

Meaning

Teaching; instruction.

That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

maxim principle dogma tenet ism creed rule axiom orthodoxy philosophy belief faith teaching instruction ideology
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Antonyms

doubt entity mistake ambiguity abortion ignorance
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Hypernyms

belief

Hyponyms

millennium gospel creed credo animalism literalism

Related terms

doctor docent document doctorate doctrinal docile

Phrases with the word

Alford doctrine San-min Doctrine Zapple doctrine false doctrine mazdean doctrine party doctrine

Anagrams

centroid

Examples

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine. Tertullian

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant

Be a lamp in brightness, and make the works of darkness cease, so that whenever your doctrine shines, no one may dare to heed the desires of darkness. Ephrem the Syrian

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction. Thomas Henry Huxley

These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these. Athanasius of Alexandria

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. Kahlil Gibran

Close letter words and terms

doctrinarily doctrinary doctrination doctrine of analogy doctrine of definite proportions doctrine of equivalents