doctrines
- 1Plural of doctrine.
The party's core doctrines shaped its policy for decades.
Competing legal doctrines made the case difficult to resolve.
Note
A plural that only some of doctrine's meanings allow. The mass use (church doctrine, party doctrine, a whole body of teaching) has no plural. Doctrines counts instead: separate tenets within one faith, or several competing systems set side by side. So the doctrines of the church lists its individual beliefs, while church doctrine names the teaching as a whole. The foreign-policy meaning counts freely too, since a country can hold more than one.
doctrines is a form of doctrine
doctrine, noun: The collected teachings of a religion, ideology, organization, leader, or text, taken as a whole. Full entry
- Forms
- doctrinedoctrines plural
- Spelling
- doctrine → doctrines: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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