decretalism

noun

decretalism

noun

Etymology From decretal + -ism.

1

Historical The beliefs of the decretalists.

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.1865, Thomas Greenwood, Cathedra Petri. A political history of the great Latin Patriarchate:

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