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单词 survivance
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survivancen.

/səˈvʌɪvəns/
Etymology: < early modern French survivance, < survivant : see survivant adj. and -ance suffix.
1.
a. = survival n. 1. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > [noun]
lifeOE
livingc1350
existence1583
survival1598
survivancea1623
survivership1638
supervivency1659
vivaciousnessa1661
vivacity1663
survivorship1697
surviving1818
a1623 Sir G. Buck Hist. Richard III (1979) (modernized text) iii. 158 Our best chroniclers [affirm] that it was doubtful whether these two brothers were taken away..or no. And again that one of them was living many years after the death of King Richard... And I like better this opinion, because it maketh mention of the survivance but of one of them.
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. ii. Concl. 448 I see, that all this huge product of Algebraicall multiplication, appeareth as nothing, in respect of thy remayning, and neuer ending suruiuance.
a1706 J. Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. iii. 192 So fixed was this good man in the belief of the Soul's survivance.
1773 S. Johnson Let. 27 Apr. (1992) II. 28 I am reasoning upon a principle very far from certain, a confidence of survivance.
1819 W. Scott Let. 22 Dec. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1837) IV. x. 334 That two of them should die without any rational possibility of the survivance of the third.
1836 I. Taylor Physical Theory Another Life (1857) 11 That which Christianity requires us to believe is the actual survivance of our personal consciousness embodied.
1874 Act 37 & 38 Vict. c. 94 §9 A personal right..shall..vest..in the heir..by his survivance of the person to whom he is entitled to succeed.
b. figurative. = survival n. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time > continuance after something else or surviving
survivala1834
survivance1838
1838 Blackwood's Mag. 43 34 The chances are much against the survivance..of any work..which has early attained to a very great celebrity.
1866 Duke of Argyll Reign of Law vii. 382 The survivance of the ancient domestic industries of so many centuries was no longer possible.
2. The succession to an estate, office, etc. of a survivor nominated before the death of the existing occupier or holder; the right of such succession in case of survival.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [noun] > succession to an office, estate, etc.
reversion1560
success1587
survivancy1659
survivancec1674
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [noun] > of survivor
surviver1528
superviver1542
survivorshipa1625
survivancy1659
survivancec1674
c1674 Acc. Scot. Grievances under Lauderdale 22 The abuse of gifts of the reversions or survivances of places to children and boys.
1714 Bp G. Burnet Hist. Reformation iii. i. 3 Gratias Expectativas, or the Survivances of Bishopricks.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 317 His son had the survivance of the Stadtholdership.
1791 Ld. Auckland Corr. 12 Dec. (1861) II. 396 Ewart..is discontented with his pension, which, however, is very high, I believe 1500l. a year, paying nett above 1000l., with the survivance of half to Mrs. Ewart.
1820 Ann. Reg. ii. 1189 The Emperor..created him..a baron of the Roman empire, with survivance to his heirs male.
1884 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 427 William II., who had already been elected to the survivance of his offices.

Derivatives

surˈvivancy n. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [noun] > succession to an office, estate, etc.
reversion1560
success1587
survivancy1659
survivancec1674
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [noun] > of survivor
surviver1528
superviver1542
survivorshipa1625
survivancy1659
survivancec1674
1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese A surviving, or survivancie, sopravivimento, sorvivimento.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 96 The best Politicians..are so far from allowing a survivancy in Governments, that they would have a Sovereign to change the Governours from three years to three years.
1753 Scots Mag. May 252/2 That survivancy of all the said offices be in the longest liver of the two.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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