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Definition of creed in English:

creed

noun kriːdkrid
  • 1A system of religious belief; a faith.

    (基督教或其他宗教的)宗教信条,教义

    people of many creeds and cultures

    具有多种宗教信条和文化的人。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Others, citing religious creeds of one kind or another, claim it was God that unleashed the earthquake and tidal waves to punish humanity.
    • Historically, creeds have developed whenever religions migrate from their homelands.
    • He scoffed at the disparate creeds of religions, each claiming to see the truth through the colored lenses of its own dogmatism.
    • You are intolerant of other races, creeds and religions.
    • Churches and philosophers give us the impression that people live by systems and ideologies and creeds and things.
    • All belief systems, ideologies, creeds, and theological frameworks turn to dust.
    • On the cover of their magazine was a three inch by five inch mirror, which reflected the face of all their readers of different nationalities, races, religions, and creeds.
    • The mayor said Thailand is known for a diversity of religions and creeds.
    • While we respect religious creeds, spiritual leaders and church councils, none of these can bind our consciences or force us to believe or observe anything outside of Bible truth.
    • We are a society of many creeds and religious beliefs.
    • The creeds of the church are affirmations of faith and not statements of belief.
    • Although the prevailing faith is that of Islam, in no country in the world is a greater variety of religious creeds to be found amongst important sections of the community.
    • The creed of the leftist religion is that any difference between people is a result of evil social forces.
    • Our difference and argument with others is on the basis of their actions, deeds and practice and never on the basis of race, creed or religion.
    • The successors to the first apostles were just beginning to organize their ministries and develop the church's worship, creeds, and teachings.
    • Our taxation system should not be based on race, ethnicity, religious belief, or creed.
    • This is not true Hinduism, which has always shown its tolerance and accepted in its fold other creeds and faiths.
    • During the past 50 years, our society has been immeasurably enriched by people from different cultures, creeds and religions.
    • Don't creeds make faith into a matter of doctrines and dogmas?
    • People should be chosen for public award or recognition on their merits, not according to their race, colour, creed or religion.
    Synonyms
    faith, religion, religious belief(s), religious persuasion, religious conviction, religious group, faith community, church
    persuasion, affiliation, denomination, sect, body, following, communion, order, school, fraternity, brotherhood, sisterhood
    1. 1.1 A formal statement of Christian beliefs, especially the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed.
      信经(尤指使徒信经或尼西亚信经)
      the godparents will then swear that they believe in the Creed and the Commandments
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The implications of the Creed for Christians in the postmodern era are staggering.
      • By the time the congregation rose to say the Creed, he had read three stories.
      • We take this to be the meaning of the phrase in the Creed that ‘he descended into hell’.
      • This is a true reading of the Apostles' Creed, which is the basis for all later creeds.
      • However, the thing that evangelicals would add to the Apostles' Creed is their view of holy scripture.
      • The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in The Apostles' Creed.
      • This Creed is in complete agreement with what the Bible states.
      • Parts of the Apostles' Creed are found in Christian writings dating to the second century.
      • Having a clear faith, based on the Creed of the Church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism.
      • In his book, he draws on one novel or film to illuminate each article of the Apostle's Creed.
      • Facing the altar but not saying the words of the Creed as, after all, they were all nonsense, I stared at the window.
      • We share the same confession, the same Nicene Creed, the same Apostle's Creed, and so forth.
      • I would say exactly the same if the Apostles' Creed, which I adhere to, had been there in the legislation.
      • Both the Creed and the Lord's Prayer must come to our aid, as we shall hear later.
      • You know he doesn't want an answer that you've read in a book, or a quotation from the Creed used on Sundays.
      • He helped to introduce singing the Creed at mass and to disseminate the performance of penance on the continent.
      • Certainly proclamation of faith is essential in the Eucharist, but do we need the Creed to accomplish that?
      • With my own children, I was amazed to hear their preschool voices recite the Apostles' Creed next to me in worship.
      • These include belief in the Creed of the Apostles and adherence to the doctrine of papal infallibility.
      • To complete the ceremony they sang Christian songs, said the Apostle's Creed and the Lord's prayer.
      Synonyms
      system of belief, set of principles, statement of beliefs, profession of faith
      doctrine, teaching, ideology, ethic, dogma, tenet, catechism, credo
      beliefs, principles, canons, articles of faith, maxims, rules, laws
    2. 1.2 A set of beliefs or aims which guide someone's actions.
      (一整套)信念;信条
      liberalism was more than a political creed

      自由主义不仅仅是一种政治信念。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Constitutional or not, the ideals are part of the American ethos and creed.
      • It is the appeasers' doctrine, the creed that inhibits the comprehensive response to a heinous deed.
      • Socialism, too, has virtually disappeared, so that liberals and conservatives are seeking a counter-image to contrast to their own political creeds.
      • Meritocracy really has fallen by the wayside, as a fashionable political creed.
      • I don't want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement.
      • Add in the anti-capitalists' flair for dramatic protest, and you have a very attractive political creed.
      • These are voices that represent all world views and political creeds.
      • It remains a uniting force for people of diverse opinions and political creeds.
      • Yet wildlife slaughter has never been the prerogative of a single race or a particular political creed.
      • This is as dutiful and strong-willed a creed as any Victorian moralist could hope for.
      • The burden that is laid upon a humanist or an atheist or someone who is not bound by any ideology or creed is that you believe in nothing but you believe in anything.
      • If that renders its essence elusive, even to those who profess to be its chief practitioners, it also endows this instinctive ideal with a longevity denied to creeds that have been fashioned on the work-benches of ideologues.
      • No ideology, creed or policy yet devised has ever stopped people trying to do the best for their children at a purely individual level.
      • What have been the features of this creed that has dominated political life?
      • Irish Toryism was the dominant political creed down to 1859, at least in terms of Westminster seats.
      • This chosen nation myth has been the oldest and most continuous creed in American civil religion.
      • Surely there must be more subtle and effective ways to win people over to your political creed.
      • Their whole creed in politics, is that it is okay as long as you don't get caught.
      • He knew that absolute creeds, whatever their ideal, cannot be reconciled with differing outlooks.
      • And an argument without evidence is a sorry one indeed, more akin to a creed or dogma than scientific reasoning.
      Synonyms
      moral code, morals, morality, moral stand, moral principles, moral values, rights and wrongs, principles, ideals, credo, ethos, rules of conduct, standards, standards of behaviour, virtues, dictates of conscience

Origin

Old English, from Latin credo.

Rhymes

accede, bead, Bede, bleed, breed, cede, concede, deed, Eid, exceed, feed, Gide, God speed, greed, he'd, heed, impede, interbreed, intercede, Jamshid, knead, lead, mead, Mede, meed, misdeed, mislead, misread, need, plead, proceed, read, rede, reed, Reid, retrocede, screed, secede, seed, she'd, speed, stampede, steed, succeed, supersede, Swede, tweed, weak-kneed, we'd, weed

Definition of creed in US English:

creed

nounkrēdkrid
  • 1A system of Christian or other religious belief; a faith.

    (基督教或其他宗教的)宗教信条,教义

    people of many creeds and cultures

    具有多种宗教信条和文化的人。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The creed of the leftist religion is that any difference between people is a result of evil social forces.
    • He scoffed at the disparate creeds of religions, each claiming to see the truth through the colored lenses of its own dogmatism.
    • During the past 50 years, our society has been immeasurably enriched by people from different cultures, creeds and religions.
    • Churches and philosophers give us the impression that people live by systems and ideologies and creeds and things.
    • We are a society of many creeds and religious beliefs.
    • Although the prevailing faith is that of Islam, in no country in the world is a greater variety of religious creeds to be found amongst important sections of the community.
    • You are intolerant of other races, creeds and religions.
    • Historically, creeds have developed whenever religions migrate from their homelands.
    • Our difference and argument with others is on the basis of their actions, deeds and practice and never on the basis of race, creed or religion.
    • The mayor said Thailand is known for a diversity of religions and creeds.
    • The successors to the first apostles were just beginning to organize their ministries and develop the church's worship, creeds, and teachings.
    • People should be chosen for public award or recognition on their merits, not according to their race, colour, creed or religion.
    • Our taxation system should not be based on race, ethnicity, religious belief, or creed.
    • Others, citing religious creeds of one kind or another, claim it was God that unleashed the earthquake and tidal waves to punish humanity.
    • Don't creeds make faith into a matter of doctrines and dogmas?
    • This is not true Hinduism, which has always shown its tolerance and accepted in its fold other creeds and faiths.
    • The creeds of the church are affirmations of faith and not statements of belief.
    • All belief systems, ideologies, creeds, and theological frameworks turn to dust.
    • On the cover of their magazine was a three inch by five inch mirror, which reflected the face of all their readers of different nationalities, races, religions, and creeds.
    • While we respect religious creeds, spiritual leaders and church councils, none of these can bind our consciences or force us to believe or observe anything outside of Bible truth.
    Synonyms
    faith, religion, religious belief, religious beliefs, religious persuasion, religious conviction, religious group, faith community, church
    1. 1.1often the Creed A formal statement of Christian beliefs, especially the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed.
      信经(尤指使徒信经或尼西亚信经)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Having a clear faith, based on the Creed of the Church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism.
      • This Creed is in complete agreement with what the Bible states.
      • Parts of the Apostles' Creed are found in Christian writings dating to the second century.
      • By the time the congregation rose to say the Creed, he had read three stories.
      • The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in The Apostles' Creed.
      • Certainly proclamation of faith is essential in the Eucharist, but do we need the Creed to accomplish that?
      • In his book, he draws on one novel or film to illuminate each article of the Apostle's Creed.
      • Facing the altar but not saying the words of the Creed as, after all, they were all nonsense, I stared at the window.
      • He helped to introduce singing the Creed at mass and to disseminate the performance of penance on the continent.
      • We share the same confession, the same Nicene Creed, the same Apostle's Creed, and so forth.
      • However, the thing that evangelicals would add to the Apostles' Creed is their view of holy scripture.
      • You know he doesn't want an answer that you've read in a book, or a quotation from the Creed used on Sundays.
      • We take this to be the meaning of the phrase in the Creed that ‘he descended into hell’.
      • I would say exactly the same if the Apostles' Creed, which I adhere to, had been there in the legislation.
      • The implications of the Creed for Christians in the postmodern era are staggering.
      • These include belief in the Creed of the Apostles and adherence to the doctrine of papal infallibility.
      • With my own children, I was amazed to hear their preschool voices recite the Apostles' Creed next to me in worship.
      • To complete the ceremony they sang Christian songs, said the Apostle's Creed and the Lord's prayer.
      • Both the Creed and the Lord's Prayer must come to our aid, as we shall hear later.
      • This is a true reading of the Apostles' Creed, which is the basis for all later creeds.
      Synonyms
      system of belief, set of principles, statement of beliefs, profession of faith
    2. 1.2 A set of beliefs or aims which guide someone's actions.
      (一整套)信念;信条
      liberalism was more than a political creed

      自由主义不仅仅是一种政治信念。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Surely there must be more subtle and effective ways to win people over to your political creed.
      • Their whole creed in politics, is that it is okay as long as you don't get caught.
      • It remains a uniting force for people of diverse opinions and political creeds.
      • What have been the features of this creed that has dominated political life?
      • He knew that absolute creeds, whatever their ideal, cannot be reconciled with differing outlooks.
      • These are voices that represent all world views and political creeds.
      • This is as dutiful and strong-willed a creed as any Victorian moralist could hope for.
      • No ideology, creed or policy yet devised has ever stopped people trying to do the best for their children at a purely individual level.
      • This chosen nation myth has been the oldest and most continuous creed in American civil religion.
      • Meritocracy really has fallen by the wayside, as a fashionable political creed.
      • I don't want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement.
      • Yet wildlife slaughter has never been the prerogative of a single race or a particular political creed.
      • It is the appeasers' doctrine, the creed that inhibits the comprehensive response to a heinous deed.
      • Irish Toryism was the dominant political creed down to 1859, at least in terms of Westminster seats.
      • Add in the anti-capitalists' flair for dramatic protest, and you have a very attractive political creed.
      • Socialism, too, has virtually disappeared, so that liberals and conservatives are seeking a counter-image to contrast to their own political creeds.
      • If that renders its essence elusive, even to those who profess to be its chief practitioners, it also endows this instinctive ideal with a longevity denied to creeds that have been fashioned on the work-benches of ideologues.
      • The burden that is laid upon a humanist or an atheist or someone who is not bound by any ideology or creed is that you believe in nothing but you believe in anything.
      • And an argument without evidence is a sorry one indeed, more akin to a creed or dogma than scientific reasoning.
      • Constitutional or not, the ideals are part of the American ethos and creed.
      Synonyms
      moral code, morals, morality, moral stand, moral principles, moral values, rights and wrongs, principles, ideals, credo, ethos, rules of conduct, standards, standards of behaviour, virtues, dictates of conscience

Origin

Old English, from Latin credo.

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