Definition of "Creone"
Creone
proper noun
Quotations
In a famous passage from Sophocles' drama, the Greek princess, Antigone, defends her disobedience of Creone's harsh decree that her brother's body should not be buried, by invoking The unwritten laws of God that know not change.
1955, Arthur Léon Harding, Albert Cook Outler, Natural law and natural rights, page 53
noun
plural Creones
A member of a tribe that lived in what is now part of Scotland.
Quotations
At the commencement of these wars, a younger son of the royal family of the Creones in Caledonia, having been sent over with succours to the Britons, was chosen their Pendragon by the kings ; and the crown was fixed hereditary in his family. And, soon after the conclusion of them, the royal line of the Creones being extinguished, their domions must necessarily have devolved to the monarchs of Ireland.
1772, John Whitaker, The Genuine History of the Britons Asserted
In the west, to the north of Mull were the Creones, falling in with the north part of Argyleshire and the west part of Rosshire ; to the north of these again were the Carnonacae, being the west part also of Rosshire ; opposite to the two first is the isle of Skye, the ancient Dumna.
1887, Publications of the Scottish History Society, page 115