“doctrines” is a form of
doctrine
UK /ˈdɒk.tɹɪn/ · US /ˈdɑk.tɹɪn/ noun
Forms doctrines
- noun (countable) A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters. “The Incarnation is a basic doctrine of Christianity.”
- noun (countable and uncountable) 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?”
- noun (countable) 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”
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Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin doctrina (“teaching, instruction, learning, knowledge”), from doctor (“a teacher”), from docere (“to teach”); see doctor.
Webster’s 1913
- noun Teaching; instruction.
- noun That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances. "The doctrine of gravitation." I. Watts.
Etymology [F. doctrine, L. doctrina, fr. doctor. See Doctor.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “doctrine”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details