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PRONUNCIATION OF DOCTRINE OF DESCENT

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WHAT DOES DOCTRINE OF DESCENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of doctrine of descent in the English dictionary

The definition of doctrine of descent in the dictionary is the theory that animals and plants arose by descent from previously existing organisms; theory of evolution.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DOCTRINE OF DESCENT

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WORDS THAT END LIKE DOCTRINE OF DESCENT

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Translator English - Chinese

血统主义
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

doctrina del descenso
570 millions of speakers

English

doctrine of descent
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वंश का सिद्धांत
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

عقيدة النسب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Учение о спуске
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

doutrina da descida
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বংশধর এর মতবাদ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

doctrine de la descente
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Doktrin keturunan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Abstammungslehre
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

降下の教義
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

하강의 교리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Doktrin keturunan
85 millions of speakers
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học thuyết gốc
80 millions of speakers

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வம்சாவளியின் கோட்பாடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कूळ शिकवण
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Translator English - Turkish

Iniş doktrini
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Translator English - Italian

dottrina della discesa
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

doktryna pochodzenia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Вчення про спуск
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

doctrină de origine
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

δόγμα της καθόδου
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Translator English - Afrikaans

leer van afkoms
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Translator English - Swedish

läran om härkomst
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

læren om nedstigningen
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about doctrine of descent

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOCTRINE OF DESCENT»

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The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism
As Goethe postulated the inter-maxillary bone in man even before he had seen or proved it, so must the doctrine of Descent extend to man all its results and more or less plainly demonstrated laws. The deduction is effected by the accumulated ...
Eduard Oskar Schmidt, 1891
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Popular Science
The peculiar merit assigned to Darwin is that he has gained the victory for the doctrine of descent. On the other hand, the doctrine of natural selection is regarded, at the best, as an ingenious idea, set forth with much skill, but in point of fact of ...
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Evolution And Intelligent Design in the Secret Doctrine: The ...
... the possibility of the second process, they would no longer have to lament the fact that “we are referred to conjecture and inference for the origin of the Mammals”!! (“The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism,” by Professor O. Schmidt, p.
Editorial Board of Theosophy Trust, 2006
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The Hasidic Psychology: Making Space for Others
Such careful interpretation concerning the operational meaning of the zaddik's descent comes to differentiate the Hasidic doctrine of descent for the sake of uplifting ascent from the heretical Sabbatean doctrine of the descent of the Messiah, ...
‎2003
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Materials for the Study of Variation: Treated with Especial ...
In what follows it will be assumed that this Doctrine of Descent is true. It should be admitted from the first that the truth of the doctrine has never been proved. There is nevertheless a great balance of evidence in its favour, but it finds its support ...
William Bateson, 2012
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The Secret Doctrine (Complete)
the worth of an hypothesis. He admits ("The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism," p. 158), that "natural selection" "is in some cases . . . inadequate, . . . in others . . . not requisite, as the solution ofthe formation ofspecies is found inother natural ...
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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The Secret Doctrine
... still be emphasized as a human character, in contradistinction to the apes; the peculiar characteristic of an order can scarcely be elicited from it; and especially as to the doctrine of Descent, this circumstance seems in no way decisive, "f The  ...
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Boris De Zirkoff, 1993
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Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion and ...
Q Lucae's argument versus the Ape-theory, based on the different flexures of the bones constituting the axis of the skull in the cases of Man and the Anthropoids, is fairly discussed by Schmidt ("Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism," p. 290).
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, 2011
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Butterflies; Their Structure, Changes and Life-Histories, ...
Being An Application Of The Doctrine Of Descent To The Study Of Butterflies - With An Appendix Of Practical Instructions - By Samuel Scudder - 1881 - PREFATORY NOTE - A BOX of common butterflies hanging on the all of L fellow-students room ...
Samuel H. Scudder, 2008
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Science But Not Scientists
Hardly a decade had passed before a "Doctrine of Descent" based on Darwin's work was published by Oscar Schmidt, a professor in the University of Strasburg. In the preface to his book, Schmidt splits the Godly and the Darwinians into two ...
Vernon L. Grose, 2006

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DOCTRINE OF DESCENT»

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The birth of an idea
The idea of evolution or the 'doctrine of descent', as it was known then, far pre-dated Darwin. His own grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, was one of ... «Chandigarh Tribune, Feb 09»

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