different between creancer vs creance

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman creanceour, Old French creanceor, from creancer.

Noun

creancer (plural creancers)

1. (obsolete) A creditor. [14th-18th c.]
2. (now historical) A guardian or tutor. [from 15th c.]
   • 1984, Nicholas Orme, From Childhood to Chivalry, p. 68:

     The creancer looked after the young man's money, disciplined him and perhaps gave him some teaching, though the youth went also to the lectures provided by the university and later by the colleges.

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 104:

     As Prince Henry's ‘creancer’ or mentor, he had power over the development of the young prince's mind.

Middle French

Etymology

Old French [Term?], from creance +? -er.

Verb

creancer

1. to promise

Conjugation

• As parler except c becomes ç before a and o. May remain c in older manuscripts.
• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

References

• creancer on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (creancer)

English

Etymology

From Middle English creaunce, from Old French creance. See credence.

Noun

creance (plural creances)

1. (obsolete) faith; belief; creed

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2. (falconry) A long leash, or lightweight cord used to prevent escape of a hawk during training flights.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, 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

creance (third-person singular simple present creances, present participle creancing, simple past and past participle creanced)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To get on credit; to borrow.

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French creance, croiance, from Late Latin credentia, or from créant.

Noun

creance f (plural creances)

1. faith; belief

Old French

Noun

creance f (oblique plural creances, nominative singular creance, nominative plural creances)

1. Alternative form of credance