cretin

«cretin» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: person with a disability — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

person with a disability

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A person born with a serious illness that stops the body and mind growing properly. tree →

how it differs from today

Today this word is an insult, and doctors use other words. In these sentences it is the old medical term for a person with that illness.

examples

• The poor cretin crept away to his bed, and nothing was seen of him during the whole of the following day. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• Valais was then, as he expressed it, only a closed-up bag, quite full of sick people, miserable cretins; but the French soldiers came, and they were capital doctors, they soon killed the disease and the sick people, too. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →

primary record

cretin

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 3 (Torah 0, tales 3, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cretin» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.