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▪ I. miscreance1 Now arch.|ˈmɪskriːəns|
Also 4–5 mes-, 5 mys-: see creance.
[a. OF. mescreance (mod.F. mécréance) = Pr. mescrezenza, It. miscredenza: see mis-2 and creance.]
False belief or faith; misbelief.
1390Gower Conf. II. 175 Se nou the foule mescreance Of Greks in thilke time tho, Whan Venus tok hire name so. 1415Hoccleve Min. Poems 16/252 For thow sholdist reconsyle Thee to him, & leue thy mescreaunce. 1484Caxton Ryall Book C viii, They falle ofte..in heresyes and in myscreaunce. 1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 26 Allured to..misbeleue miscreaunce and contempt of God. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. viii. 51 Paynim..if thou wilt renounce thy miscreaunce,..Life will I graunt thee. 1863Yule tr. Jordanus' Mirab. Descr. (Hakl. Soc.) xiv. 56 Their preachers [sc. Mohammedans] run about..in order to turn all to their own miscreance. 1864Kingsley Rom. & Teut. xi. 311 The Crescent was master of the Cross; and beyond the Pyrenees all was slavery and ‘miscreance’. 1876Ruskin Fors Clav. lxxii. 384 By the faith that is in it, what..good it can..do, by the miscreance in it, what mischief it can do.
▪ II. † miscreance2 Obs. rare.
[irreg. f. mis-2 + L. crē-(crēscĕre) to grow + -ance. Cf. OF. mescreu misgrown.]
= misgrowth.
1658A. Fox tr. Würtz' Surg. iii. Introd. 218 Earth is the mother of all fruits, yet hath it many miscreance [orig. viel Missgewaechse]. 1658― tr. Würtz' Childr. Bk. 359 Unless there be some miscreance, or other unshapedness about them. |