Definitions For Decretalist

Noun

DECRETALIST (plural DECRETALISTs) (historical) A member of a 13th-century school of interpretation of canon law that emphasized the decretals (letters issued by the Popes on matters of church discipline) in preference to the (1141), which their rivals, the decretists, favoured.

Related terms

decretalism

Etymology

decretal + ist

Is Decretalist a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends NO
Scrabble US NO
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) NO
Scrabble Global YES
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14
Words with Friends
16

The word Decretalist is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends

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