0 one of the principles on which a belief or theory is based:
It is a tenet of contemporary psychology that an individual's mental health is supported by having good social networks.
1 a principle that is an accepted belief of a particular group:
But it found considerable resonance in many of the basic tenets of folk attitudes and created a strong bond between village and nation.
Instead, politics turns faith into dogma and results in deviance from the noble tenets of "original" faith and, finally, fails to universalize ethics.
A key tenet of local biology is that the body is inextricably linked with place.
The comparative national framework reveals that for the local level, the central tenets of liberalism in ideology and practice were striking in their similarity.
This is because of the well-tested tenet that fixed-income investment returns cannot be expected to match equity returns based on historical evidence.
They faced ancient and distinguished cultures, many of whose tenets were diametrically opposed to those they advocated.
It does not take a great deal of reasoning to see why these tenets are at the very least indifferent to the practice of puja.
Interestingly, both positions are in keeping with cognitive linguistic tenets.