approvance
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old French aprovance.
Noun edit
approvance (uncountable)
- (archaic) Approval.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- […] then gan all the quire of birdes / Their diuerse notes t'attune vnto his lay, / As in approuance of his pleasing words.
- 1821, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 555:
- I resolved […] to withdraw, formally, our claim. I am sure of your approveance for this prudence.
Alternative forms edit
- approvaunce (obsolete)