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nuncreable (c.1165)
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nuncreable (c.1165)

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noncreable,  nouncreable  
  FEW:  credere 2/ii,1301b Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: noncrëable 6,780 DEAF: ∅ DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

a.

1incredible, unbelievable: 
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  les noveles merveillouses et [...] a poi noun creables  TREVET Cron1 212.15
♦untrustworthy: 
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  commencer e non parfaire Fait home vein e non creable  S Greg 1925
2incredulous, refusing to believe: 
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  lez lettres lui firent tourner a dolour, et le fist nouncreable, qar le roi [...] defendi al messager [...] qe riens de sa femme ne del enfaunt parlast  TREVET Cron1 212.8
♦theol.unbelieving, lack (true) faith: 
( c.1165; MS: s.xiii2 )  Tant est fol peoples nuncreables Que en veines choses nunverables Unt lur creance e lur espeir  MARIE Fables 190.17
( MS: c.1300 )  O tu deus ki es sire de tutes choses, ki les nuncreables angeles mesis en emfern  Invention 26v

s.

theol.unbeliever, one who lacks (true) faith: 
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  A cest mot (=doctrine of transubstantiation) lors, com non creable, Icele se prist a sozrire  S Greg 2192

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See also:

creable  mescreable  nientcreable 
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