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assemblaunce

assemblaunce is the obsolete form of assemblance.

Meaning of assemblance

Noun

assemblance (countable and uncountable, plural assemblances)

  1. (obsolete) Resemblance; likeness; appearance.
    • [C]are I for the limbe, the thevves, the ſtature, bulke and big aſſemblance of a man: giue me the ſpirit […]c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600...
  2. (obsolete) An assembling; assemblage.
    • […] A rout of people farre away; / To whom his courſe he haſtily applide, / To weete the cauſe of their aſſemblaunce wide.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 230

Forms of assemblaunce

pluralassemblaunces

Questions about assemblaunce

What is assemblaunce the obsolete form of?
Assemblaunce is the obsolete form of assemblance.

Words near assemblaunce in the dictionary

  1. assemblages
  2. assemblagist
  3. assemblagists
  4. assemblance
  5. assemblances
  6. assemblaunce
  7. assemblaunces
  8. assemble
  9. assembled
  10. assembler
  11. assembler language

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