pious opinion
Theology
noun
A belief commonly accepted, but not enjoined as a dogma or matter of faith; (hence) a belief which is not insisted on or carried out in practice (now archaic ).
Origin
Mid 17th century; earliest use found in John Bramhall (d. 1663), Church of Ireland archbishop of Armagh.
- teacher
- teacherage
- teacherly
- teachers college
- tea chest
- teach-in
- teaching
- teaching fellow
- teaching hospital
- teaching machine
- teach one's grandmother to suck eggs
- teach school
- teach someone a lesson
- Teachta Dála
- tea cloth
- death knell
- deathless
- deathlessness
- death light
- deathlike
- deathliness
- deathling
- deathly
- death march
- death mask