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/ˈdɒktɹɪnəl/
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/dɒkˈtɹaɪnəl/
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/ˈdɑktɹɪnəl/
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/dɑkˈtɹaɪnəl/
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ˈdɒktɹɪnəl
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ˈdɑktɹɪnəl
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Adjective
Of, relating to, involving, belonging to or concerning a doctrine.
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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.
[…]yet inevitably, [JD] Vance is already giving menacing doctrinal advice to the pope as part of the multi-theatre fallout of Operation Epic Facepalm.
Didactic.
Usage- Obsolete
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The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument.
Noun
A matter of doctrine, or system of doctrines.
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His Teaching is not to teach you the Doctrinals of Salvation and of the Son, for he leaves that to Ministers, and to the Bible, to teach you the Doctrinals only in a doctrinal way
The Doctrinal of Princes
Adjective
relating to or involving or preoccupied with doctrine
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quibbling over doctrinal minutiae