credance
Old French
Later forms
- creiance
- creance
- croiance
- creanche (Old Northern French)
Etymology
From credre + -ance, cf. Late Latin credentia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kreˈðãntsə]
Noun
credance f (oblique plural credances, nominative singular credance, nominative plural credances)
- (early Old French) faith; belief; trust
- Mid-11th Century, La Vie de Saint Alexis
- Si ert credance dont or n'i at nul prot.
- Indeed there was trust, which there is little left of now.
Related terms
- credre (verb)
Descendants
- → Middle English: creaunce
- English: creance
- French: croyance
- Norman: crianche (Jersey)