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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1393|origins=la creare}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /kriˈeɪ.ʃən/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|creacioun]],^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) [[bor|fro|creacion|t=creation, a coming into being]] (14th century, modern création),^(Etymonline)^(SOED 2002) from [[la|creātiō|t=a creating, producing; in classical use, an election, appointment]],^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)^(NODE 1998) a noun of action from the past participle stem of creāre “to make, bring forth, produce”,^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) the source of [[create]],^(NODE 1998) from [[ine-pro|*ḱerh₃-|alt=*ker-|t=to grow]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The action of creating or causing to exist: 1393 in the OED,^(OED 1989) the late 14th century in Etymonline, also a created thing.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The investing of a person with a title or dignity, as the creation of a peer, is from 1460.^(OED 1989) The creation of the world, as a point in time, is from 1593,^(OED 1989)^(SOED 2002) and that which God has created, the universe and all in it, from the 1610s (1611 in the OED).^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) The native Old English word in the biblical sense was frumsceaft.^(Etymonline) An original product of human imagination or skill is from 1605,^(OED 1989) and of costumes, desserts and the like, after French, by the 1870s.^(Etymonline) The formation of a business company is from 1898.^(OED 1989) Phrases such as ''all creation'' and ''in creation'' are used as intensives from 1825.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1393 – the act of creating.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1460 – investiture with a title.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1593 – the beginning of the world.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1605 – a product of human skill.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1611 – the created world.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1870s – a fashion creation.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The act of [[create|alt=creating]], or the state of having been created.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # Something created, especially an original product of imagination or skill: ''the chef's latest creation''.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # The world and everything in it; all living things.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''the Creation'': God's making of the world, as described in the Bible.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # The act of investing a person with a new title or [[rank]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[creational]]

+ * [[anticreation]]

+ * [[creationism]]

+ * [[re-creation]]

+ * [[creation science]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[create]]

+ * [[creative]]

+ * [[creativity]]

+ * [[creator]]

+ * [[creatural]]

+ * [[creature]]

+ * [[creature comforts]]

+ * [[creaturely]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}