Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Unbelief; false faith; adherence to a false religion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete The quality of being miscreant; adherence to a false religion; false faith.

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  • noun obsolete The quality of being miscreant; adherence to a false religion; false faith.

Etymologies

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Old French mescreance, French mécréance ("incredulity").

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Examples

  • If that guy had actually run up my ass and killed me dead he would have not only not been punished for his miscreance but he would have been back behind the wheel within a week while I fed the worms from my new vantage point six feet under.

    On Life and Death and Ego 2007

  • The latest case of miscreance is his refusal to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the rendition of a Canadian man who was taken ast JFK from a flight to his home and instead sent to Syria where he was kept in prison and tortured for a year.

    OpEdNews - Diary: America Back on Track... for Friday, July 25th 2008

  • Rome which is called the market of Trajan, and then he remembered of the justice and other good deeds of Trajan, and how he had been piteous and debonair, and was much sorrowful that he had been a paynim, and he turned to the church of S. Peter wailing for the horror of the miscreance of Trajan.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

  • With great respect to Hedges for his magnificent thought and writing, it won't help all that much to scold miscreant liberals, unless the causes of their miscreance are addressed.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • With great respect to Hedges for his magnificent thought and writing, it won't help all that much to scold miscreant liberals, unless the causes of their miscreance are addressed.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • Even if you read the virulent anti-Clinton haters’ description of what you apparently mean by “Chinagate,” they trowel on the ominous, dark hints of miscreance and criminality under the surface, but they have not one single fact to back up their insinuations.

    Think Progress » Breaking: Rove Meeting With Special Prosecutor About Leak Case 2006

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