an article of faith a firmly held belief.
☞ Article is here used in the sense of 'a statement or item in a summary of religious belief'.
2013New Statesman The people who run MI5 are bureaucrats. It is a Mail article of faith that such people are lazy, good-for-nothing time-servers.
the finished article: seefinished.
the genuine article: seegenuine.
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