miscreance

English

Alternative forms

• miscreancy

Etymology

From Middle English myscreaunce, miscreaunce, from Old French mescreänce.

Noun

miscreance (countable and uncountable, plural miscreances)

1. (obsolete) The quality of being miscreant; adherence to a false religion; false faith.
   • 1658, Felix Wuertz, The Surgeons Guid:

     my advice is , not to use any curiosities at the laying and binding your Children , unless there be some miscreance, or other unshapedness about them

References

• “miscreance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.