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creedal

  • a word derived from creed.

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It isn’t creedal or expansive, will likely be more brutish and narrow.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 8, 2026

Translation: If your family has been in the U.S. for generations, it doesn’t matter whether you accept or reject America’s creedal principles.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 28, 2025

Our creedal nation, Stirewalt says, “requires written words and a common culture in which to understand them.”

From Washington Post Aug. 10, 2022

Your parents are already aware that you don’t share their creedal convictions.

From New York Times Oct. 9, 2018

To make the test creedal is not only contrary to the intensely pragmatic character of childhood but inimical to the resistless spirit of inquiry and speculation which breaks out in reflective youth.

From The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work by Hoben, Allan