Meanings
nounperceiverance (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountablePerception, awareness.First known use 15th–17th c.
But, as (by degrees) Number did come to our perceiuerance: So, by visible formes, we are holpen to imagine, what our Line Mathematicall, is.
1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface
Origin
Apparently from perceiver + -ance, perhaps after perseverance. Compare later perceivance.
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