doctrine

noun
/ˈdɒk.tɹɪn/UK/ˈdɑk.tɹɪn/US

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin doctrina (“teaching, instruction, learning, knowledge”), from doctor (“a teacher”), from docere (“to teach”); see doctor.

  1. derived from doctrina

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • 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.
  2. The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or…

    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?
    • 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.
  3. A self-imposed policy governing some aspect of a country's foreign relations, especially…

    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.

    • the Monroe Doctrine the Brezhnev Doctrine the Negroponte Doctrine

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at doctrine. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at doctrine. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at doctrine

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA