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单词 operancy
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operancyn.

Brit. /ˈɒp(ə)rənsi/, /ˈɒp(ə)rn̩si/, U.S. /ˈɑp(ə)rənsi/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin operant- , operāns ., -ancy suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin operant-, operāns operant adj.: see -ancy suffix. Compare earlier operance n.
The quality or fact of being operant; operation.
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the world > action or operation > [noun]
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operationa1393
workmanshipc1400
actionc1405
act?a1425
workinga1425
activityc1485
executiona1530
play1548
workfulness1570
inworking1587
acting1605
agency1606
operancea1625
transaction1663
operancyc1811
outworking1846
mediacy1854
functioning1856
c1811–26 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (2000) V. 584 [Jeremy] Taylor..is always too shy of this ‘Grace of God’: he never..admits it any separate and per se operancy.
1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 511/2 Function..implying by that word an immediate organic operancy.
1878 E. Dowden Stud. Lit. 127 When all intellection and all operancy of will seem to be suspended.
1959 Ethics 69 223/1 Of course, Rotenstreich is wary lest, by affirming the operancy of laws in history, he deprive man of his freedom and his transcendence of history.
1981 J. May Many-colored Land ii. v. 139 If we discover that you possess them, we have the technology to bring them up to operancy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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