creance
See also: créance
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English creaunce, from Old French creance. See credence.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcreance (plural creances)
- (obsolete) faith; belief; creed
- (falconry) A long leash, or lightweight cord used to prevent escape of a hawk during training flights.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.12:
- Even as horses led by hand doe sometimes bound and start out of the way, but no further then their halters length, and neverthelesse follow ever his steps that leadeth them; And as a Hawke takes his flight but under the limits of hir cranes or twyne.
Verb
editcreance (third-person singular simple present creances, present participle creancing, simple past and past participle creanced)
- (obsolete, transitive) To get on credit; to borrow.
Middle English
editNoun
editcreance
- Alternative form of creaunce
Middle French
editEtymology
editFrom Old French creance, croiance, from Late Latin credentia, or from créant.
Noun
editcreance f (plural creances)
Old French
editNoun
editcreance oblique singular, f (oblique plural creances, nominative singular creance, nominative plural creances)
- Alternative form of credance
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