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construance

construance noun: synonym of construal.

Noun

construance (countable and uncountable, plural construances)

  1. Synonym of construal.
    • That is the language of the organic act, and if the Journal insists on a strict construance of the paragraph it will mean that the territorial legislature has power over supreme courts as well as the inferior courts referred to, and if the legislature has power to create county courts it has the...1886 March 17, “County Courts”, in Arizona Daily Star, volume XI, number 66, Tucson, Ariz.
    • The construance has been, it is complained by the president’s critics, that the innocent have been made to suffer while the guilty ones—the actual murderers—have escaped with a penalty that is a travesty.1906 December 29, “In Brownsville Case: President’s Opponents to Spare Him No End of Embarrassment”, in The Waxahachie Daily Light, volume XIV, Waxahachie, Tex.
    Synonyms:
    construal

Examples of construance in a sentence

  • The counselor’s agreement with the client’s construances of events communicates a positive attitude toward the client.1982, Stanley R. Strong, Susan R. Strong, Charles D. Claiborn, Change Through Interaction: Social Psychological Processes of Counseling and...
  • Picking at the fine construances of words—half of which come to us through translations of dubious accuracy—would be no ally to our need for alacrity.2012, Eric Flint, Charles E. Gannon, 1635: The Papal Stakes, Baen Books:

Synonyms of construance

Forms of construance

pluralconstruances

Origin of construance

From construe + -ance.

Questions about construance

What does construance mean?
Construance means synonym of construal.
How do you use construance in a sentence?
The counselor’s agreement with the client’s construances of events communicates a positive attitude toward the client.
What part of speech is construance?
Construance is a noun.
What is the plural of construance?
The plural of construance is construances.

Words near construance in the dictionary

  1. construability
  2. construable
  3. construably
  4. construal
  5. construals
  6. construance
  7. construances
  8. construation
  9. construations
  10. construct
  11. construct state

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