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currence

currence noun: the quality of being current (generally circulated and accepted); currency, currentness.

Noun

currence (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The quality of being current (generally circulated and accepted); currency, currentness.
    • And the time consumed in discussion will certainly not have been lost, if it only strips the argument of all sentimentalism and false currence, and leaves it to be judged by good sense and sound reason.1854 January, “The Decline and Fall of the Corporation of London”, in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume XLIV, number CCLXXXIX, London: John W. Parker and Son, →OCLC, page 6

Proper noun capitalized: Currence

Currence (plural Currences)

  1. A surname.

Forms of currence

pluralCurrences

Origin of currence

Borrowed from Latin currentia + -ence, from Latin currō (“to run”).

Questions about currence

What does currence mean?
Currence means the quality of being current (generally circulated and accepted); currency, currentness.
What part of speech is currence?
Currence can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near currence in the dictionary

  1. currawong
  2. Currawong Beach
  3. currawongs
  4. curred
  5. Curren
  6. currence
  7. Currences
  8. currencies
  9. currency
  10. currency adjustment factor
  11. currency adjustment factors

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