01 n. 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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Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero.“That al animals of the land are in their kind in the sea, . . . is a tenet very questionable.” — Sir T. Browne.“The religious tenets of his family he had early renounced with contempt.” — Macaulay.