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doctrine
  1. A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.
  2. The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group or text.
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    1. “In 325, church leaders were willing to die to see that orthodox doctrine was upheld.”
      “In his presentation on the Baptist sects, Weber explores the similarities between Calvinist doctrine and Quakerism.”
      “This accords with his foreign policy doctrine that there should be no intervention in areas where US interests are not involved.”
doctrinaire
  1. A person who stubbornly holds to his or her philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility.
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    1. “The admission that past Americans harbored ambivalent and confusing attitudes about nature seems too untidy for the doctrinaire.”
doctrinism
  1. doctrinal rigidity; using a doctrine without any criticism.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Putting an end to doctrinism in the YCL led to relationships with mainstream youth organizations.”
doctrinalism
doctrinarianism
doctrinairism
  1. doctrinaire attitudes generally
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    1. “He continued to express his resistance to what he saw as the doctrinairism in communist literary circles in various articles.”
      “This unyielding doctrinairism necessarily brought about the decline of liberalism.”
      “But it was too late now to engage in the struggle, and the minority was to expiate its doctrinairism and maladroitness.”
doctrination
  1. (nonstandard) indoctrination
doctrinal
  1. A matter of doctrine, or system of doctrines.
doctrinarian
doctrinarianisms
  1. plural of doctrinarianism
doctrinairisms
doctrinalisms
doctrinarians
  1. plural of doctrinarian
doctrinations
  1. plural of doctrination
doctrinaires
  1. plural of doctrinaire
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  3. Examples:
    1. “There were few doctrinaires in Parliament, and the reforming zeal of the Whigs rapidly waned.”
      “Their decision to marry in a low-key civil ceremony means that they will offend no one save the doctrinaires.”
      “It's the opponents of Emmanuel College and other faith schools who are the real doctrinaires.”
doctrinisms
  1. plural of doctrinism
doctrinals
  1. plural of doctrinal
doctrines
  1. plural of doctrine
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    1. “In all the social sciences, the doctrines of racialism were accepted as a given.”
      “Perhaps the adjurations are against confining the remedial provisions by reference to common law doctrines and limitations.”
      “What he disliked most about the Church was the association between its rigidly enforced doctrines and its historic political aspirations.”
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