Antonyms for doctrine
ˈdɒk trɪndoc·trine

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1. doctrine

   Doctrine primarily signifies that which is taught; principle, the fundamental basis on which the teaching rests. A doctrine is reasoned out, and may be defended by reasoning; a dogma rests on authority, as of direct revelation, the decision of the church, etc. A doctrine or dogma is a statement of some one item of belief; a creed is a summary of doctrines or dogmas. Dogma has commonly, at the present day, an offensive signification, as of a belief arrogantly asserted. Tenet is simply that which is held, and is applied to a single item of belief; it is a neutral word, neither approving nor condemning; we speak of the doctrines of our own church; of the tenets of others. A precept relates not to belief, but to conduct. Compare FAITH; LAW.

   Synonyms:
   article of belief, article of faith, belief, dogma, precept, principle, teaching, tenet

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1. doctrine

   Antonyms:
   practice, operation, duty, conduct, action

   Synonyms:
   tenet, article, belief, creed, dogma, teaching, precept, principle

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1. doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ismnoun

   a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

   Synonyms:
   philosophical system, school of thought, ism, philosophy

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1. doctrinenoun

   Synonyms:
   tenet, dogma, belief, principle, teaching

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1. not doctrine

   Submitted by anonymous on April 19, 2020  

How to use doctrine in a sentence?

1. Frank Straus Meyer:

   The ideal type of the Communist is a man in whom all individual, emotional, and unconscious elements have been reduced to a minimum and subjected to the control of an iron will, informed by a supple intellect. That intellect is totally at the service of a single and compelling idea, made incarnate in the Communist Party: the concept of History as an inexorable god whose ways are revealed ‘scientifically’ through the doctrine and method of Marxism-Leninism.

2. Rebekah Koffler:

   They fear U.S. intervention in Ukraine because they fear we are conventionally superior, and if they interpret our action as offensive rather than defensive, that is when the viability of Russian statehood would be threatened, in accordance with the Russian national security concept and military doctrine.

3. Rick Wilson:

   He's an existential risk, not only to the conservative movement, but to the Republican Party, we have reached a point now where we could abandon or lose limited-government conservatives for a generation if we replace it for this statist nationalism and Trumpism as a doctrine for our party.

4. David Gibson:

   The anger directed at Pope Francis by many conservatives is often cloaked in concerns over doctrine and orthodoxy, but much of it is a simple and understandable frustration over not having the inside track any more as they did in the previous two papacies.

5. Michael Waltz:

   To those of us who are a little bit older, it reminds us of what the Soviets used to do or what the Chinese do today, where they literally have political commissars inserted at every level end of the chain of command, but they have a separate reporting chain to ensure that the military is abiding by their ideology and their political doctrine.

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