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-ance
- a suffix used to form nouns either from adjectives ending in -ant or from verbs:
brilliance; appearance.
-ance
suffix forming nouns
- indicating an action, state or condition, or quality Compare -ence
resemblance
hindrance
tenancy
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Word History and Origins
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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.
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"I had ance a kin' o' notion o' Bell mysel," continued Sanders.
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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.
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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.
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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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