Creed Definition

krēd
creeds
noun
creeds
A brief statement of religious belief; confession of faith.
Webster's New World
A specific statement of this kind, accepted by a church.
Webster's New World
Any set of beliefs or principles.
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Synonyms:
verb

To believe; to credit.

Wiktionary
idiom
the Creed
  • the Apostles' Creed
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Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Creed

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Origin of Creed

  • From Old English credo, crede, Old English creda, from Latin credo (“I believe”), from credere (“to believe”); akin to Old Irish cretim (“I believe”), and Sanskrit रद्दध्मि (raddadhmi).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English crede from Old English crēda from Latin crēdō I believe credo

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Creed Sentence Examples

  • I live by a certain creed, one that runs in our family.

  • The proposal to draw up a new creed was rejected.

  • In 1823 he married the princess Elizabeth of Bavaria, who adopted the Lutheran creed.

  • It follows that the words " holy Church " were contained in the Roman Creed.'

  • In that year he became attorney-general and was returned by Edinburgh, for which he sat till 1841.2 His political creed declared upon the hustings there was that of a moderate Whig.

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