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CharmYou Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

What's Dogma?

Is dogma a religious term?
Can I say "All of us were born taught the dogma that we should wash our face and brush our teeth every day! I don't want to live with the dogma so I don't wash my face and I never brush my teech."
  

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It's not exclusively a religious term but it's not very suitable for your sentence. dogma a religious doctrine or system of doctrines proclaimed by ecclesiastical authority as true a belief, principle, or doctrine or a code of beliefs, principles, or doctrines: Marxist dogma (Collins)

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  • It's not exclusively a religious term but it's not very suitable for your sentence.
  • dogma a religious doctrine or system of doctrines proclaimed by ecclesiastical authority as true a belief, principle, or doctrine or a code of beliefs, principles, or doctrines: Marxist dogma (Collins)
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It's not exclusively a religious term but it's not very suitable for your sentence.

dogma
  1. a religious doctrine or system of doctrines proclaimed by ecclesiastical authority as true
  2. a belief, principle, or doctrine or a code of beliefs, principles, or doctrines: M
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