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-ance

  1. a suffix used to form nouns either from adjectives ending in -ant or from verbs:

    brilliance; appearance.



-ance

suffix forming nouns

  1. See -ence
    indicating an action, state or condition, or quality Compare -ence

    resemblance

    tenancy

    hindrance



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Word History and Origins

Origin of -ance1

Middle English < Old French < Latin -antia -ancy, equivalent to -ant- -ant + -ia -y 3

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Word History and Origins

Origin of -ance1

via Old French from Latin -antia; see -ancy

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Example Sentences

An' then, a' at ance, the minister's heart played dunt an' stood stock-still; an' a cauld wund blew amang the hairs o' his heid.

"I had ance a kin' o' notion o' Bell mysel," continued Sanders.

God keep ill gear out o' my hands; for if my hands ance get it, my heart winna part wi't,—sae prayed the gude Earl of Eglinton.

Davie tell't me how you stood up and saluted him, and I was glad I'd kissed ye ance upon a time, though it was only to plague ye.

Ance a woman is the wife of any man, she becomes wife to all men for having had the wifely experience she kens!

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