different between doctrinal vs doctrinaire

English

Etymology

The noun form was from French doctrinal; the adjective form was perhaps from Late Latin doctr?n?lis, from doctr?na.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?kt??n?l/, /d?k?t?a?n?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?kt??n?l/, /d?k?t?a?n?l/

Adjective

doctrinal

1. Of, relating to, involving, belonging to or concerning a doctrine.
2. (obsolete) Didactic.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument.

Related terms

Translations

Noun

doctrinal (plural doctrinals)

1. A matter of doctrine, or system of doctrines.
   • a. 1680, Thomas Goodwin, The Object and Acts of Justifying Faith

     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

   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Governour

     The Doctrinal of Princes

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /dok.t?i?nal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /duk.t?i?nal/

Adjective

doctrinal (masculine and feminine plural doctrinals)

1. doctrinal

French

Etymology

doctrine +? -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?k.t?i.nal/

Adjective

doctrinal (feminine singular doctrinale, masculine plural doctrinaux, feminine plural doctrinales)

1. doctrinal

Further reading

• “doctrinal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Occitan

Adjective

doctrinal m (feminine singular doctrinala, masculine plural doctrinals, feminine plural doctrinalas)

1. doctrinal

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do?t?i?nal/, [d?o??.t??i?nal]
• Hyphenation: doc?tri?nal

Adjective

doctrinal (plural doctrinales)

1. doctrinal

Noun

doctrinal m (plural doctrinales)

1. doctrinal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French doctrinaire, from doctrine +? -aire.

Noun

doctrinaire (plural doctrinaires)

1. A person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility.
2. (historical) In France, in 1815-30, one of a school who desired a constitution like that of Britain.

Translations

Adjective

doctrinaire (comparative more doctrinaire, superlative most doctrinaire)

1. Stubbornly holding on to an idea without concern for practicalities or reality.

Translations

Related terms

• docent
• docile
• doctor
• doctorate
• doctrinal
• doctrine
• document
• indoctrinate

Further reading

• "doctrinaire" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 108.

French

Etymology

doctrine +? -aire

Pronunciation

Noun

doctrinaire m or f (plural doctrinaires)

1. doctrinaire

Adjective

doctrinaire (plural doctrinaires)

1. doctrinaire
2. doctrinal

Derived terms

• doctrinairement