perceiverance
English
editEtymology
editApparently from perceiver + -ance, perhaps after perseverance. Compare later perceivance.
Noun
editperceiverance (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Perception, awareness. [15th–17th c.]
- 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface:
- 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: