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† perˈceiverance, -ˈance Obs.
Forms: 5–7 perseuer-, -ver-, 6 perceyuer-, -ver-, perceuer-, -ver-, perceauer-, 6–7 perceiuer-, -ver-; 5–7 -aunce, -ance.
[app. f. as prec. + -ance, as an equivalent of OF. percevance (f. percevant, pr. pple. of percevoir: see -ance), of which the natural Eng. repr. was percevance, later perceivance. Through the insertion of the -er, the word was brought into confusion with perseverance, already in the language and also stressed perˈseverance.]
1. Faculty or capacity of perceiving; the act of perceiving; mental (rarely physical) perception, understanding: = perceivance.
c1440Gesta Rom. li. 230 (Add. MS.) Foryetefull wille, or flesshly delectation,..defouleth the myrrours, that is, conscience and perseveraunce..so that the soule may not se god. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. vi. iv, So by logyke is good perceyveraunce To devyde the good and the euyll asondre. 1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke xvii. 143 Lightenynge soodainlye flashynge foorthe..before ye haue any perceiueraunce that any suche thing is to come. a1592Greene George a Greene (1599) D ij, This is wondrous, being blinde of sight His deepe perseuerance should be such to know us. 1618Latham 2nd Bk. Falconry (1633) 45 Then you shall perceiue that shee will haue perceiuerance and vnderstanding by the dogs remouing and giuing way with feare vnto her.
2. Perceived or perceptible appearance.
1546Langley Pol. Verg. De Invent. ii. xv. 61 God wyllyng..to shewe the grosse wyttes of men some perceiueraunce of hymselfe. 1579–80North Plutarch, Paulus æmilius (ad fin.), He sodainly fell into a rauing (without any perseuerance of sicknes spied in him before). 1600Surflet Countrie Farme vi. x. 744 If..there be any perceiuerance and shewe that the budde will likewise blossome and flowre.
So † perceiverant Obs. rare—1 = perceiver n. 1.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xi. xxiv. (1554), For first doctrine, in all goodly wise The perseuerant [1555 perceyveraunt] trouthe [1555 trowthe], in his booth [1555 bote] of wil. |