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plural credos or credoes
A statement of a belief or a summary statement of a whole belief system; also (metonymically) the belief or belief system itself. quotations examples
“You’re either with me or you’re against me” became Dany’s credo, and those against her were an ever-changing multitude to be determined solely by her whims.
2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club
(Christianity) The liturgical creed (usually the Nicene Creed), or a musical arrangement of it for use in church services. quotations examples
Until the mid-1970s, however, most Catholic hymnals contained at least one musical setting of the creed […] By the 1980s hymnals having sung credos were mainly those devoted to "traditional" styles of church music […]
1996, Pastoral Music, volume 21, page 12