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-ance

 
Use -ance in a Sentence
a suffix used to form nouns either from adjectives in -ant or from verbs: brilliance; appearance.
Origin:
ME < OF < L -antia -ancy, equiv. to -ant- -ant + -ia -y 3
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-ance  
suff.  

  1. State or condition: absorptance.

  2. Action: continuance.


[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin -antia, n. suff. (-ant, -ant + -ia, n. suff.) and from Latin -entia (-ent, -ent + -ia, n. suff.)]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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