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English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin doctrina (“teaching, instruction, learning, knowledge”), from doctor (“a teacher”), from docere (“to teach”); see doctor.
Pronunciation
- enPR: dǒkˈ -trǐn
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɒk.tɹɪn/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɑk.tɹɪn/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: doc‧trine
- Rhymes: -ɑktɹɪn, -ɒktɹɪn
Noun
doctrine (countable and uncountable, plural doctrines)
- (countable) A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.
- The Incarnation is a basic doctrine of Christianity.
- The Four Noble Truths summarise the main doctrines of Buddhism.
- 2012, Joseph Agassi, Science in Flux:
- Metaphysics stagnates in scienceless (or uncritical) cultures; it is progressive in scientific ones. It progresses then because existing metaphysical doctrines are felt to be constricting frameworks, and thus unsatisfactory.
- (countable and uncountable) The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group, or text.
- What is the understanding of marriage and family in orthodox Marxist doctrine?
- 1560, John Knox, An Answere to a Great Number of Blasphemous Cavillations Written by an Anabaptist, and aduersarie to Gods eternall Predestination, London: Thomas Charde, published 1591, page 95:
- This one thing do we (compelled by your blaſphemous accuſations) repeat oftener then we would: to the end that indifferent men may ſee what doctrine it is, which you ſo maliciouſly impugne.
- (countable) A self-imposed policy governing some aspect of a country's foreign relations, especially regarding what sort of behavior it will or will not tolerate from other countries.
Derived terms
- abstention doctrine
- Alford doctrine
- Bell doctrine
- blue pencil doctrine
- castle doctrine
- counterdoctrine
- doctrinable
- doctrineless
- doctrine of equivalents
- doctrine of foreign equivalents
- doctrine of necessity
- doctrine of philosophical necessity
- doctrine of signatures
- doctrinism
- endoctrine
- fairness doctrine
- first-sale doctrine (first sale doctrine)
- living tree doctrine
- original package doctrine
- plain view doctrine
- professional rescuers doctrine
- prosperity doctrine
- spider in the web doctrine
- tender years doctrine
- undoctrined
- wage-fund doctrine
- Zapple doctrine
Related terms
Translations
belief
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body of beliefs or teachings
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Further reading
- “doctrine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “doctrine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch doctrine, from Middle French doctrine, from Latin doctrīna.
Pronunciation
Noun
doctrine f (plural doctrines, diminutive doctrinetje n)
Derived terms
- doctrinair
- indoctrineren
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin doctrīna.
Pronunciation
Noun
doctrine f (plural doctrines)
- doctrine
- corps de doctrine ― body of doctrine
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “doctrine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Spanish
Verb
doctrine
- inflection of doctrinar:
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