Credo meaning

krē'dō, krā'-
A creed.
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The definition of a credo is a statement or system of beliefs or guiding principles.

Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you is an example of a credo.

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A belief system.
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Origin of credo

  • Middle English the Apostles' Creed from Latin crēdō I believe (the first word of the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed) first person sing. present tense of crēdere to believe kerd- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Latin crēdō (“I believe”); see creed.
    From Wiktionary

Credo Sentence Examples

  • credo, I believe), or Confessions Of Faith.

  • In that case, all who accept a revelation without professing to understand its content would require to be ranked as mystics; the fierce sincerity of Tertullian's credo quia ab-' surdum, Pascal's reconciliation of contradictions in Jesus Christ, and Bayle's half-sneering subordination of reason to faith would all be marks of this standpoint.

  • in 1823; the Crown of Our Lord, attributed to Michael of Florence, a Camaldolese monk (c. 1516), and consisting of 33 Paters, 5 A y es and a Credo; St Bridget's, 7 Paters and 63 A y es, in honour of the joys and sorrows of the Blessed Virgin and the 63 years of her life.

  • This gives the utmost possible effect of finality to the whole Credo, and contrasts admirably with the coldly formal instrumental end of the Resurrexit three movements further back.

  • Obviously the greatest difficulty in any elaborate instrumental setting of the Credo is the inevitable anti-climax after the Resurrexit.

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