Creche vs Nativity - What's the difference?
creche | nativity |
(also with capital initial) The birth of Jesus.
(Christianity) The festival celebrating the birth of Jesus; Christmas Day.
(astrology) Someone's birth considered as a means of astrology; a horoscope associated with a person's birth.
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 313:
As nouns the difference between creche and nativity
is that creche is alternative form of crèche|lang=en while nativity is someone's birth; the place, time and circumstances of a birth.nativity
English
Noun
(nativities)- Accordingly […] he was careful, as befitted a Fellow of the Royal Society, to note the exact nativity of his subjects whenever it could be discovered; in this way he hoped to make possible a scientific comparison of the course of human life with the astrological circumstances of its inception, and ths to arrive at a more exact astrology.