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† ˈyieldance Obs.
[f. yield v. + -ance. (A favourite word with Bp. Joseph Hall.)]
The action of yielding, in various senses.
1. Surrender, submission, compliance.
1610Bp. Hall Apol. Brownists 2 The spirits of these men are two-well knowne, to admit any expectation of yeeldance. 1633― Hard Texts Rom. vii. 8 Had not the law strictly restrained us from the yeildance unto sinne. 1657Trapp Comm. Job ix. 14, 87 Seeking to disarm his indignation by an humble yeildance. a1716South Serm., Gal. ii. 5 (1727) V. 490 For if the things under Debate be given up to the Adversary, it must be upon one of these two Accounts; either, 1. That the Persons who thus yield them up, judge them unfit to be retained. Or, 2. That they find themselves unable to retain them; one or both of these must of necessity be implied in such a Yieldance.
b. Granting, allowance.
a1656Bp. Hall Specialities Life Rem. Wks. (1660) 23 If..I might draw him to a willing yieldance of that parcell of my due maintenance, which was kept back from my not over-deserving predecessor.
2. Production, yield.
a1656Bp. Hall Serm., Ps. cvii. 34 Wks. 1662 III. 197 How should the corn, wine, oyl, be had without the yieldance of the earth? 1668Steele Husbandman's Calling vii. 183 When it [sc. harvest] comes, sometimes the poor yieldance of it utterly disappoints him. |