Definitions for decrees

decrees de·cree

Spelling: [dih-kree]
IPA: /dɪˈkri/

Decrees is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in decrees (cdeeers).

Definitions for decrees

noun

  1. a formal and authoritative order, especially one having the force of law:
  2. Law. a judicial decision or order.
  3. Theology. one of the eternal purposes of God, by which events are foreordained.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to command, ordain, or decide by decree.

Origin of decrees

1275-1325; (noun) Middle English decre Anglo-French decre, decret Latin dēcrētum, noun use of neuter of dēcrētus, past participle of dēcernere; see decern; (v.) Mid

Examples for decrees

It seemed more than a decree of chance that their fates should be intertwined.

A 2010 decree took it a step further: they will be stricken with a “crime against sacraments.”

It was nothing that the decree bore date since his return to France.

But there was the decree, written in letters of blood and flame.

Justice Anthony Kennedy has more power than any president or justice in history to decree the law of the land.

There he was, and there was the decree; he had been taken in France, and his head was demanded.

History is the final tribunal which will decree to everyone what he has deserved.

Just two weeks later, the Sultan issued his decree that shariah, Islamic law, would be the new law of the land.

And it is not for all of the time, all or nothing, as the Yahoo decree implied.

The tensions here arise from the notion that democracies decide to go to war as nations, not by dint of decree.

Word Value for decrees
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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