creatur
See also: créatúr
English
Noun
creatur (plural creaturs)
- Obsolete spelling of creature.
- 1901, Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Uncalled[1]:
- I 'm mighty sorry to hear about the poor old creatur; but she 'd served you a long while."
- 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner[2]:
- But it was observed with some irritation in the village, that anybody but a "blind creatur" like Marner would have seen the man prowling about, for how came he to leave his tinder-box in the ditch close by, if he hadn't been lingering there?
- 1799, George Eliot, Adam Bede[3]:
- "Frightened, very frightened, when they first brought her in; it was the first sight of the crowd and the judge, poor creatur.
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) creātur
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French criature.
Noun
creatur
- Alternative form of creature
Etymology 2
From Old French creator.
Noun
creatur
- Alternative form of creatour
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
creatur oblique singular, m (oblique plural creaturs, nominative singular creaturs, nominative plural creatur)
- creator (one who creates)
- 1958, The French Text of the Ancrene Riwle (based on the Cambridge manuscript, circa 1300)
- Kar quele compareison est entre le creatour e sa creature?
- For what comparison is there between the creator and his creature?
- Kar quele compareison est entre le creatour e sa creature?
- 1958, The French Text of the Ancrene Riwle (based on the Cambridge manuscript, circa 1300)
Usage notes
- Almost always refers to the Christian idea of God or Jesus Christ
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (creator, supplement)
- creatur on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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