Meanings
nounapprovance (uncountable)
alternative approvaunce
- archaicuncountableApproval.
I resolved […] to withdraw, formally, our claim. I am sure of your approveance for this prudence.
1821, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 5551 more example
[…] then gan all the quire of birdes / Their diuerse notes t'attune vnto his lay, / As in approuance of his pleasing words.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Origin
- Old Frenchaprovance
- Englishapprovance
From Old French aprovance.
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