creatur
See also: créatúr
English
Noun
creatur (plural creaturs)
- Pronunciation spelling of creature.
- 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “The Morning of the Trial”, in Adam Bede […], volume III, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book fifth, page 118:
- Frightened, very frightened, when they first brought her in; it was the first sight of the crowd and the judge, poor creatur.
- 1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter VIII, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part I, page 123:
- 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?
- 1898, Paul Laurence Dunbar, chapter VIII, in The Uncalled: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 101:
- I 'm mighty sorry to hear about the poor old creatur; but she 'd served you a long while.
Anagrams
Latin
Old French
Alternative forms
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?
- 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
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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