perceiverance

English

Etymology

Apparently from perceiver +‎ -ance, perhaps after perseverance. Compare later perceivance.

Noun

perceiverance (uncountable)

1. (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.