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Webster 1913 Edition
Tendance
1.
The act of attending or waiting; attendance.
[Archaic]
Spenser.
The breath
Of her sweet
Of her sweet
tendance
hovering over him. Tennyson.
2.
Persons in attendance; attendants.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tendance
TEND'ANCE
,Noun.
1.
Persons attending.2.
Act of waiting; attendance.3.
Care; act of tending.[This word is entirely obsolete in all its senses. We now use attendance.]
Definition 2024
tendance
tendance
English
Noun
tendance (plural tendances)
- (archaic) The act of attending or waiting; attendance.
- 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 136:
- What but love, kindness, and all affection is her tendance upon poor Emily. To her, is she not all meekness, all love, all forbearance?
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- (obsolete) Persons in attendance; attendants.
- 1607, William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens, I. i. 83:
- his lobbies fill with tendance, / Rain sacrificial whisperings in his ear,
- 1607, William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens, I. i. 83:
References
- tendance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɑ̃.dɑ̃s/
Noun
tendance f (plural tendances)
Derived terms
- avoir la tendance de (To tend to)