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tenet (ˈtɛnɪt, ˈtiːnɪt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| a belief, opinion, or dogma | |
| [C17: from Latin, literally: he (it) holds, from tenēre to hold] | |
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Tenet
is an SAT word you need to know.
So is implication. Does it mean:
| something implied or suggested as naturally to be inferred or understood: |
| To authorize or decree a particular action, as by the enactment of law. verb; A command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative noun |
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Word Origin & History
tenet
"principle," properly "a thing held (to be true)," 1413, from L. tenet "he holds," third person singular present indicative of tenere "to hold, to keep, to maintain" from PIE base *ten- "to stretch" (cf. Skt. tantram "loom," tanoti "stretches, lasts;" Pers. tar "string;" Lith. tankus "compact," i.e.
"tightened;" Gk. teinein "to stretch," tasis "a stretching, tension," tenos "sinew," tetanos "stiff, rigid," tonos "string," hence "sound, pitch;" L. tendere "to stretch," tenuis "thin, rare, fine;" O.C.S. tento "cord;" O.E. thynne "thin"). Connection notion between "stretch" and "hold" is "to cause to maintain." The modern sense is probably because tenet was used in M.L. to introduce a statement of doctrine.
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Example sentences
Now the rigor of scientific research is being applied to this seemingly ineffable tenet of religious belief.
If a theory suggests that effect determines the cause then such proposal has to be beyond the basic tenet of science.
One basic tenet is that the people who live and work near the ocean should play a role in conservation planning and management.
Governments have outlawed religiously-sanctioned polygamy, even when the practice has been a central tenet of faith.
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