doctrinal en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈdɒktɹɪnəl/ (UK)
- /dɒkˈtɹaɪnəl/ (UK)
- /ˈdɑktɹɪnəl/ (US)
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- /dɑkˈtɹaɪnəl/ (US)
Etymology
The noun form was from French doctrinal; the adjective form was perhaps from Late Latin doctrīnālis, from doctrīna.
Meanings
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Of, relating to, involving, belonging to or concerning a doctrine.
Thus it was not only in the doctrinal field that revisionism called into question the traditional belief in the revolutionary mission of the proletariat: the belief was challenged, perhaps more effectively still, by the success of revisionism as a social phenomenon, which robbed socialism of the glamorous prospect of a 'final battle' for universal liberation.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 114:[…]yet inevitably, [JD] Vance is already giving menacing doctrinal advice to the pope as part of the multi-theatre fallout of Operation Epic Facepalm.
2026 April 17, Marina Hyde, “Is the pope Catholic? JD Vance thinks he has an answer”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
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(obsolete) Didactic.
The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument.
[1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
Deriveds
counterdoctrinal · doctrinally · undoctrinal · doctrinalist · doctrinalism · nondoctrinal
Relateds
doctor · docile · doctrine · docent · indoctrinate · doctrinaire · doctorate · document
Translations (23)
de doktrinal (of or relating to a doctrine) · nl leerstellig (of or relating to a doctrine) · it dottrinale (of or relating to a doctrine) · nl doctrinair (of or relating to a doctrine) · fi oppi- (of or relating to a doctrine) · la doctrinalis (of or relating to a doctrine) · cmn 學說的 /学说的 (of or relating to a doctrine) · ga foirceadail (of or relating to a doctrine) · ga foirceadlach (of or relating to a doctrine) · cmn 教義的 /教义的 (of or relating to a doctrine) · ca doctrinal (of or relating to a doctrine) · gl doutrinal (of or relating to a doctrine) · pt doutrinário (of or relating to a doctrine) · cmn 教條的 /教条的 (of or relating to a doctrine) · el δογματικός (of or relating to a doctrine) · pt doutrinal (of or relating to a doctrine) · fr doctrinal (of or relating to a doctrine) · ro doctrinal (of or relating to a doctrine) · io doktrinala (of or relating to a doctrine) · eo doktrina (of or relating to a doctrine) · pl doktrynalny (of or relating to a doctrine) · fi opillinen (of or relating to a doctrine) · es doctrinal (of or relating to a doctrine)