creedal

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Etymology

From creed +‎ -al.

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creedal (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to a creed.
    • 2005, Jaroslav Pelikan, Credo: Historical and Theological Guide to Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition:
      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.
    • 2022, Gary Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Introduction:
      These creedal principles deeply shaped American politics during the heyday of the neoliberal order.
    • 2025 August 1, Ezra Klein, “Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      […] 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.

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