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amenance

amenance noun: conduct, demeanor.

Noun

amenance (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Conduct, demeanor.
    • How may straunge knight hope euer to aspire, / By faithfull seruice, and meet amenance, / Vnto such blisse?1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of amenance

alternative formamenaunce

Origin of amenance

From Old French amenance.

Questions about amenance

What does amenance mean?
Amenance means conduct, demeanor.
What part of speech is amenance?
Amenance is a noun.

Words near amenance in the dictionary

  1. amenability
  2. amenable
  3. amenableness
  4. amenably
  5. amenamevir
  6. amenance
  7. amenaunce
  8. amend
  9. amend.
  10. amendability
  11. amendable

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