creant

See also: créant

English

Etymology

Latin creans.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹiːənt/

Adjective

creant (comparative more creant, superlative most creant)

1. 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 […]

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Canter, Cretan, canter, carnet, centra, nectar, recant, tanrec, trance

Catalan

Verb

creant

1. gerund of crear

Latin

Verb

creant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of creō

Middle English

Adjective

creant

1. Alternative form of creaunt