Crossword-Solution: TENET 5 letters, 343 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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Tenet n. Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a
person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of
Cicero.

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TENET anagram ETTEN, NETTE, TENTE

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One who, or that which, eats.
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This was also a tenet of his creed borrowed from trans-Atlantic cousins, who, by the bye, during the time I speak of, found America, and especially our Eastern states, a happy hunting-ground,--all the clubs, country houses, and society generally opening their doors to the "sesame" of English nationality.
Worldly Ways and Byways Eliot Gregory 2007
Basing his general doctrine upon the first chapter of Job and the second chapter of Ephesians, he insisted on the reality of diabolic agency in storms; and then, by theological reasoning, corroborated by the statements extorted in the torture chamber, he showed the efficacy of bells in putting the hellish legions to flight.(247) This continued, therefore, an accepted tenet, developed in every nation, and coming to its climax near the end of the seventeenth century.
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Andrew Dickson White 1996
Tyler sent him to college he had never heard the word _ethics_, and yet I am equally sure that in all his life he never has transgressed a single tenet of the code of ethics of an American gentleman.
The People that Time Forgot Edgar Rice Burroughs 1996
Regarding the opinions of the ancients on the subject of the eternity of matter, Higgins, in his learned work on Celtic Druids, says: "The eternity of matter is a well known tenet of the Pythagoreans, and whether right or wrong there can be no doubt that it was the doctrine of the oriental school, whence Pythagoras drew his learning.
The God-Idea of the Ancients Eliza Burt Gamble 1996
Trinarii quodam currentem in littoris ora Ante canes leporem caeruleus rapuit; At lepus: in me omnis terrae pelagique rapina est, Forsitan et coeli, si canis astra tenet.
Lucasta Richard Lovelace 1996

Quotes with TENET (3)

I have been astonished that men could die martyrsfor their religion--I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religionand I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.
John Keats
... evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity," one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution.
Michael Shermer
It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so much disturbance, bloodshed and persecution. It is indeed a pity that even at the close of the twentieth century we've had to witness such atrocities because of religion. Flying the flag of religion has always proved the easiest way to crush to nothingness human beings as well as the spirit of humanity.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 1,105 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).