tendance

Her simple, kindly nature had turned in solicitude and affection to this springing life that responded to her tendance.

Under the eye and tendance of his betrothed, he found during the next few weeks some mitigation of his sufferings.

It did not come to an actual rupture, chiefly because Yule could not do without his wife; her tendance had become indispensable.

A pleasing passage of Spenser illustrates their affectionate tendance of the sick.

La tendance des révolutions est de le ramener toujours parmi les gouvernants.