creant
See also: créant
English
Etymology
Latin creans.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɹiːənt/
Adjective
creant (comparative more creant, superlative most creant)
- creative; formative
- 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Drama of Exile
- As yourselves
Were fashioned very good at best, so we
Sprang very beauteous from the creant Word
Which thrilled behind us […]
- As yourselves
- 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Drama of Exile
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for creant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- Canter, Cretan, canter, carnet, centra, nectar, recant, tanrec, trance
Catalan
Verb
creant
- present participle of crear
Latin
Verb
creant
- third-person plural present active indicative of creō
Middle English
Adjective
creant
- Alternative form of creaunt