tenet Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof
    dogma.

WordNet

Ten"et noun
Etymology
L. tenet he holds, fr. tenere to hold. See Tenable.
Definitions
  1. 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.
    Syn. -- Dogma; doctrine; opinion; principle; position. See Dogma.

Webster 1913