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aidance

aidance noun: aid; assistance; help.

Noun

aidance (countable and uncountable, plural aidances)

  1. Aid; assistance; help.
    • Since sware the Parcæ unto me, their friend, / they shall adore my name, my favour prize; / and, as their feats of armèd prowess shend / all feats of rival Rome, I lief devise / some mode of aidance in what things I may, / far as our force o'er man extendeth sway.1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 339
    • I hoped your aidance in mine every chance[.]1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XI, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 108

Forms of aidance

pluralaidances

Origin of aidance

From Old French aidance, from aidier (“help, aid”); equivalent to aid + -ance.

Questions about aidance

What does aidance mean?
Aidance means aid; assistance; help.
What part of speech is aidance?
Aidance is a noun.
What is the plural of aidance?
The plural of aidance is aidances.

Words near aidance in the dictionary

  1. aida
  2. Aida cloth
  3. Aida cloths
  4. aidable
  5. Aidan
  6. aidance
  7. aidances
  8. aidant
  9. aidants
  10. Aidas
  11. aide

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