miscreance
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English myscreaunce, miscreaunce, from Old French mescreänce.
Noun edit
miscreance (countable and uncountable, plural miscreances)
- (obsolete) The quality of being miscreant; adherence to a false religion; false faith.
- 1658, Felix Wuertz, The Surgeons Guid:
- my advice is , not to use any curiosities at the laying and binding your Children , unless there be some miscreance, or other unshapedness about them
References edit
- “miscreance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.