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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

dogme

Pronunciation / Transliteration: dogme

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Dogma/ˈdɒɡ.mə/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #8500 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Il rejette tout dogme aveugle."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true.

    "He had no patience with modern dogma."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the ancient Greek dogma meaning 'that which seems to be good', 'opinion', or 'decree', originating from dokein meaning 'to seem' or 'to think'. It entered late Middle English in the 17th century via Late Latin from Greek, originally signifying a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true.

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