different between doctrine vs meliorism

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin doctrina (“teaching, instruction, learning, knowledge”), from doctor (“a teacher”), from docere (“to teach”); see doctor.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?kt??n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?kt??n/
• Hyphenation: doc?trine

Noun

doctrine (countable and uncountable, plural doctrines)

1. (countable) A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.

   The incarnation is a basic doctrine of classical Christianity.

   The four noble truths summarise the main doctrines of Buddhism.

2. (countable and uncountable) The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group or text.

   What is the understanding of marriage and family in orthodox Marxist doctrine?

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• doctrine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• doctrine in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Crediton, centroid

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch doctrine, from Middle French doctrine, from Latin doctr?na.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?k?tri.n?/
• Hyphenation: doc?tri?ne
• Rhymes: -in?

Noun

doctrine f (plural doctrines, diminutive doctrinetje n)

1. doctrine

   Synonyms: leer, leerstuk

Derived terms

• doctrinair
• indoctrineren

French

Etymology

From Latin doctrina, diminutive from doctus, taught, perfect passive participle of docere, teach

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?k.t?in/

Noun

doctrine f (plural doctrines)

1. doctrine

Further reading

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

Spanish

Verb

doctrine

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of doctrinar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of doctrinar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of doctrinar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of doctrinar.

English

Etymology

From Latin melior (“better”) +? -ism. Reportedly coined by British author George Eliot in her letters, published in 1877.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mi?l????z(?)m/

Noun

meliorism (countable and uncountable, plural meliorisms)

1. The view or doctrine that the world can be improved through human effort (often understood as an intermediate outlook between optimism and pessimism). [from 19th c.]
   • 1966 May 6, "Forever Beginning," Time:

     At the convention, the official mood was traditional Methodist meliorism.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, page 371:

     Enclaves of meritocratic and virtuous sociability, the lodges exuded […] a thoroughgoing meliorism.

Derived terms

• meliorist
• melioristic
• melioristically

Translations

References

• “meliorism” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "meliorism" at Rhymezone (Datamuse, 2006)
• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
• Dictionary of Philosophy, Dagobert D. Runes (editor), Philosophical Library, 1962; see: "Meliorism" by Archie J. Bahm, page 195

Romanian

Etymology

From French méliorisme

Noun

meliorism n (uncountable)

1. meliorism

Declension