souvenance

English

Noun

souvenance (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of sovenance
   • 1928, Helmar Gustaf Emanuel Eneborg, Swedish Year-book, page 274:

     (Souvenance of a Cruise on Northern Seas.) Edinburgh 1910.

   • 2022 May 25, Arnold Bennett, The Complete Clayhanger Family Novels: Clayhanger + Hilda Lessways + These Twain + The Roll Call, DigiCat:

     […] he abandoned himself afresh to indulgence in the souvenance of the great critical scene of the morning. Yes, he had done marvels; and fate was astoundingly kind to him also. But there was one aspect of the affair that intrigued and puzzled him, and weakened his self-satisfaction […]

Old French

Etymology

souvenant +‎ -ance, from the verb souvenir.

Noun

souvenance oblique singular, f (oblique plural souvenances, nominative singular souvenance, nominative plural souvenances)

1. memory
   • 1288, C'est Martine Toriel, S. Brice, A. Tournai

     Pour souvenance des coses

Descendants

• English: sovenance (borrowed, obsolete)