Meanings
nounsuspence (countable and uncountable, plural suspences)
plural suspences
- countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of suspense.
Strehlina too⸺suspence was unbearable to Holstein, and, with all the exertion he was able to put to trial, he endeavoured to follow the Baron.
1807, [Miss Guion], chapter IX, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume III, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 127
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