creedal
- a word derived from creed.
Example Sentences
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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