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Another word for dogma

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Noun

  1. A principle taught or advanced for belief, as by a religious or philosophical group

    See also:

    belief

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Another word for dogma

Noun
  1. See also:

    doctrine

    faith

    doctrine

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Sentence Examples

  • In place of dogma, the elements of religion were alone to be taught.

  • This dogma was shaken by Wohler's synthesis of urea in 1828.

  • See the Histories of Dogma by A.

  • He has filled the old skins of dogma with the new wine of love, and shown men what it is to believe, live and be free.

  • The methodists agreed with the empirics in one point, in their contempt for anatomy; but, strictly speaking, they were dogmatists, though with a dogma different from that of the Hippocratic school.

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