creance
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of creance
1300–50; Middle English < Middle French < Vulgar Latin *crēdentia credence
Example Sentences
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While the owl will be attached to a creance — “it’s like a zip line,” she explained — for a controlled flight, Machu will fly free.
From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2014
Very carefully and kindly, and with the best intentions, she wound the creance up quite wrong.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
A fine peregrine falcon, with her music jingling in the whistling wind als clear, and her creance trailing behind her, was beating along above his head toward the top of ' one of the elms.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The creance wrapped itself three times round the nearest bough.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
We may creance* while we have a name, *obtain credit But goldless for to be it is no game.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing
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