A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Creance, n. [ME. creaunce, creance (14th c.), OF. creance.]
1. Credit (in goods or money).a1400 Leg. S. xxvi. 761.
Myn wil ware gud thé to relewe With creance, quhare-with thu Mycht help thé 14.. Acts I. 356/2.
Al maner of othir thingis [that are] till thair creance lent or laid in wed
2. Faith, religion.1456 Hay II. 159/32.
I wald first gude to me … , syne till all thai of my creaunce, and of my lay
