survivance

English

Alternative forms

survivancy

Etymology

Noun

survivance

survivorship
- Bishop Burnet
  His son had the survivance of the stadtholdership.
(Canada) The survival of Francophone culture in the face of Anglo-American hegemony.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.