"créance" meaning in French

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      "word": "créancier"
    },
    {
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      "word": "lettre de créance"
    }
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        "2": "la",
        "3": "crēdēns"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin crēdēns",
      "name": "der"
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        "2": "croyance",
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      "expansion": "croyance",
      "name": "doublet"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Derived from the root cre- in the strong forms of Old French croire, creier, and particularly from the present participle, créant + -ance or -ance. Alternatively, but less likely, borrowed from Medieval Latin crēdentia, from Latin crēdēns, which would make it a doublet of the inherited croyance.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "créances",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "croyance"
    }
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      "glosses": [
        "a debt"
      ],
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          "debt",
          "debt"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
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      "glosses": [
        "credence"
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "credence",
          "credence"
        ]
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kʁe.ɑ̃s/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɑ̃s"
    }
  ],
  "word": "créance"
}

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    "French countable nouns",
    "French doublets",
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    "French feminine nouns",
    "French lemmas",
    "French nouns",
    "French terms derived from Latin",
    "French terms derived from Old French",
    "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "French undefined derivations",
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    "Rhymes:French/ɑ̃s",
    "Rhymes:French/ɑ̃s/2 syllables"
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    {
      "word": "créancier"
    },
    {
      "word": "lettre de créance"
    }
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      "args": {
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        "2": "la",
        "3": "crēdēns"
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      "expansion": "Latin crēdēns",
      "name": "der"
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        "2": "croyance",
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      },
      "expansion": "croyance",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Derived from the root cre- in the strong forms of Old French croire, creier, and particularly from the present participle, créant + -ance or -ance. Alternatively, but less likely, borrowed from Medieval Latin crēdentia, from Latin crēdēns, which would make it a doublet of the inherited croyance.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "créances",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "croyance"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a debt"
      ],
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        [
          "debt",
          "debt"
        ]
      ],
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        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "credence"
      ],
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          "credence",
          "credence"
        ]
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        "feminine"
      ]
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  ],
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      "ipa": "/kʁe.ɑ̃s/"
    },
    {
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  ],
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