decretalism
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decretalism (uncountable)
- (historical) The beliefs of the decretalists.
- 1865, Thomas Greenwood, Cathedra Petri. A political history of the great Latin Patriarchate:
- A glance at the articles of the statute of Clarendon will show that they contained as direct a contradiction to the decretalism of the canon law as could be expressed in words.