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miscreancy|ˈmɪskriːənsɪ|
[f. miscreant + -ancy, after miscreance.]
1. Misbelief; = miscreance1 1. Now arch.
1611Cotgr., Mescreance, miscreancie, misbeleefe. 1630in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. App. 33 Treasons..against the Celestial Majesty, as Schism, Heresie, Miscreancy. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 208 The more usual Causes of this Deprivation are such as these..Schism, Heresy, Miscreancy, Atheism. 1840De Quincey Essenes in Blackw. Mag. XLVII. 469/2 Does the audacity of man present us with such another instance of perfidious miscreancy? God the Jehovah anxious for the honour of Jupiter and Mercury!
2. Villainy, depravity. Also semi-concr.
1804J. Larwood No Gun Boats 30 In the envious miscreancy of the men..la Sexe does not participate. 1851W. Anderson Expos. Popery (1878) 75 The attempt of a perjured miscreancy to deliver England up to the domination of the obscene Italian Impostor. 1875Calder Nat. Tribes Tasmania 68 The savages..had long been the objects of the miscreancy of the sealers, and hated the white race accordingly. |