aidance

English

Etymology

From Old French aidance, from aidier (“help, aid”); equivalent to aid +‎ -ance.

Noun

aidance (countable and uncountable, plural aidances)

1. Aid; assistance; help.
   • 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 339:

     Since sware the Parcæ unto me, their friend, / they shall adore my name, my favour prize; / and, as their feats of armèd prowess shend / all feats of rival Rome, I lief devise / some mode of aidance in what things I may, / far as our force o'er man extendeth sway.

   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XI, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 108:

     I hoped your aidance in mine every chance[.]

References

• “aidance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Walloon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛː.ˈdãs/

Noun

aidance m

1. help, assistance, aid