creedal
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to a creed.
Example Sentences
- "For every branch of jurisprudence secular or sacred and therefore also for canonical and creedal jurisprudence, this implies at least the following five issues: enactment, ratification, enforcement, compliance, interpretation."
- "These creedal principles deeply shaped American politics during the heyday of the neoliberal order."
- "[…] This liberal idea that the nation is a commitment to a set of fairly abstract values—that you can’t really build a nation on that. That what gets called creedal nationalism—this nationalism of a shared story—that's not, for you, a real nation. That it won't hold together."
Etymology
From creed + -al.