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How to use creed in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun, verb

Creed means that which is believed; accepted doctrine, especially religious doctrine; a particular set of beliefs; any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to. Example: “A creed is a manifesto of religious or spiritual beliefs.”

Examples of creed by meaning

nounThat which is believed; accepted doctrine, especially religious doctrine; a particular set of beliefs; any summary of...

  • The Edhi Foundation is unusual in its ignoring of caste, creed, religion and sect.2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on...

nounA reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents; a confession of faith for public use...

  • A creed is a manifesto of religious or spiritual beliefs
  • The Apostles' Creed was not the only creed to come into existence in the period of the early church.2015, Alister [Edgar] McGrath, “Getting the Most out of Apostles’ Creed”, in Apostles’ Creed (LifeGuide Bible Studies), Downers Grove...

verbTo provide with a creed.

  • Especially in the studies of religions less creeded than Christianity scholars have long insisted on the importance in religion of sacred stories.1977, Peter Slater, “Religion as Story: The Biography of Norman Bethune”, in Peter Slater, editor, Religion and Culture in Canada =...

More sentences with creed

  • A creed is a manifesto of religious or spiritual beliefs.From the entry manifesto
  • Rejecting both the high art-as-tradition creed of the self-styled Humanists led by T.S.2003, James T. Farrell, Young Lonigan, →ISBN. From the entry engagé
  • For more than forty years, he preached the creed of art and beauty.1984, Mary Jane Matz, The Many Lives of Otto Kahn: A Biography, page 5. From the entry child
  • I refer rather to the central position the creed of unyiedling will holds in the North.1936, J. R. R. Tolkien, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, published 1976, page 18. From the entry unyielding
  • One of the coolest things about the Internet is the way it links together computers of all races and creeds.1997, Scott Knaster, Shannon King-Rouse, “[Java] What Is Java?”, in Macworld® Discover Internet Explorer 3, Foster City, Calif.: IDG Books…. From the entry on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog
  • Anarcho-capitalism is a creed new to the present age.1971, Murray Rothbard, “Know Your Rights”, in WIN: Peace and Freedom through Nonviolent Action, volume 7, number 4, pages 6–10. From the entry anarcho-capitalism
  • Even our xenophobias, our isolationisms, and our Know-Nothingisms, have found support in the perversions and distortions of this creed.1949, Ralph Barton Perry, Characteristically American, page 68. From the entry xenophobias
  • It is quite apparent why a matrician missed this generalization, because his creed is to build from low-order matrices high-order arrays.1940, Electrical Engineering. From the entry matrician
  • The modern cry of "more liberty and less creed" is a degeneration from a vertebrate to a jellyfish.1913, B. H. Carrol, An Interpretation of the English Bible. From the entry degeneration
  • Now the Jains officially recognise all the Gods of the Hindu creed, as well as the Lingam and the Snake.1901, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 11, in Kim, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 254. From the entry brahminical
  • The government has adopted Johnson's notorious attitude to cake – wanting to have it and to eat it – and made cakeism its defining creed.2021, The Guardian, "The dishonesty of Boris Johnson has finally infected the entire government", Jonathan Freedland, 19 November 2021. From the entry cakeism
  • There was a wave of slackness, and young men preferred to remain lob-lolly lesser Hindus than to follow their fathers' stern creed.1932, Journal of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, volume 80, page 185. From the entry loblolly
  • Yet the creeds of yestercentury remain.1920 July, D. R. Piper, “Have we any user for creeds”, in Homiletic Review, volume 80, page 5. From the entry yestercentury
  • Their creed is based on the Kuznets curve, the graph that appears to show that inequality automatically declines as capitalism advances, spreading wealth from the elite to the rest.2014 July 29, George Monbiot, “The rich want us to believe their wealth is good for us all”, in The Guardian. From the entry Kuznets curve
  • For Lutheran churches, the doctrinal basis for this particularity is found in the Bible, in Christian creeds and in the Lutheran confessional documents of the sixteenth century.2008, Lorelei F. Fuchs, Koinonia and the Quest for an Ecumenical Ecclesiology. From the entry confessionality
  • I don't much care whether that creed is called socialism, bolshevism, Portilloism or Harvey's Law, I know what I stand for and am happy to defend it.2001, Richard G, “Smith promises early action to scrap Section 28”, in uk.gay-lesbian-bi (Usenet). From the entry Portilloism

Meaning of creed

  1. noun That which is believed; accepted doctrine, especially religious doctrine; a particular set of beliefs; any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.
  2. noun A reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents; a confession of faith for public use, especially one which is brief and comprehensive.
  3. noun The fact of believing; belief, faith.

Full definition of creed

Questions about creed in a sentence

How do you use creed in a sentence?
Creed is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A creed is a manifesto of religious or spiritual beliefs.”
What is a short sentence with creed?
“Yet the creeds of yestercentury remain.”
What does creed mean?
Creed means that which is believed; accepted doctrine, especially religious doctrine; a particular set of beliefs; any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.

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