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A belief you'd defend at a dinner party even after dessert.
means A core principle or belief that a person or group holds to be true and treats as a foundation for other beliefs or actions.
from From Latin 'tenet,' meaning 'he/she/it holds' — the third-person singular of 'tenere,' to hold. Latin textbooks and treatises used it to introduce a position the author 'holds' to be true, and English borrowed the word whole, letting a verb form freeze into a noun for the thing held onto.
- palindrome
- Reads the same backward, like the movie it inspired
- not dogma
- Dogma demands obedience, a tenet just asks agreement
- etymology
- From Latin tenere, to hold, as in holding firm
- group term
- Collections of tenets form creeds, doctrines, or constitutions