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descendance, -ence Now rare.|dɪˈsɛndəns|
[a. F. descendance (13th c. in Littré), f. descend-re to descend: in earlier use often spelt -ence as in med.L. dēscendentia: see -ance, -ence.]
1. The action or fact of descending or springing from a particular ancestor or origin; = descent 7.
1599Minsheu Sp. Gram. 12 Etymologie..this searching out of originall and descendence of words. 1630R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlem. Ep. Ded., Lineall descendence. 1875N. Amer. Rev. CXX. 238 With Mr. Darwin's Theory of Descendence. 1885H. Kendall in 19th Cent., The fact that Jesus Christ had descendance from King David. 1891Blackw. Mag. CL. 712/2 A descendance that is not lineal either of mind or spirit.
2. concr. Descendants. (App. a corruption: cf. descendant B. 1, quot. 1623, and accidence.)
(Sir T. Elyot has inhabitance = inhabitants.)
a1661Fuller Worthies iii. (1662) 60 In some descendance from the Duke of Norfolk, in the Stanhops and the Arundels. |