edict
noun
a decree issued by a sovereign or other authority.
edicts
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pluralof edict.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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These include women's rights, unpredictable Taliban edicts, international sanctions and aid cuts during a spiralling humanitarian crisis.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Lawmakers in the lower house will on Thursday debate a bill to annul the royal edicts, and the Senate is then to have its say at an undetermined date before the law can pass.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
The problem is, these kinds of edicts are impossible to follow in a practical way.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 9, 2026
Alfred Hitchcock, Carol Reed, Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick and many others made incredible films that directly contradicted the edicts of studio bosses at the behest of the government.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026
In a similar manner, centuries of respectable writers have gradually shifted the collective consensus of what is right and wrong while shrugging off now-forgotten edicts by self-appointed guardians of the language.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
