"decretalism" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1865, Thomas Greenwood, Cathedra Petri. A political history of the great Latin Patriarchate",
          "text": "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.",
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        "The beliefs of the decretalists."
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        "(historical) The beliefs of the decretalists."
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