See also: rémanence

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From remanent (that which remains) +‎ -ence.

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remanence (countable and uncountable, plural remanences)

 
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  1. (physics) The magnetization left behind in a medium after an external magnetic field is removed.
  2. (archaic) The state of being remanent; continuance; permanence.
    • 1646, Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying:
      remanence in their flesh
    • c. 1810, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [no title], notes written in a copy of Taylor, Jeremy. Unum Necessarium; or the Doctrine and Practice of Repentance, 1655; republished as “Notes on Jeremy Taylor”, in Henry Nelson Coleridge, editor, Coleridge's Literary Remains, volume 3, 1838:
      Neither St. Augustine nor Calvin denied the remanence of the will in the fallen spirit; but they, and Luther as well as they, objected to the flattering epithet 'free' will.

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