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emparlance

emparlance is the alternative spelling of imparlance.

Meaning of imparlance

Noun

imparlance (countable and uncountable, plural imparlances)

  1. (obsolete) Discussion, especially before some action is taken; conference, debate.
    • Full oftentimes did Britomart assay / To speake to them, and some emparlance move; / But they for nought their cruell hands would stay […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) Time given to a party to talk or converse with his opponent, originally with the object of effecting, if possible, an amicable adjustment of the suit, but also used to obtain further time to plead or answer allegations.
    • [W]ith Rejoinders and Replies, / Long Bills, and Anſvvers, ſtuft vvith Lies, / Demurr, Imparlance, and Eſſoign, / The Parties ne'er could Iſſue join: / For Sixteen Years the Cauſe vvas ſpun, / And then ſtood vvhere it firſt begun.1726, [Jonathan Swift], Cadenus and Vanessa. A Poem, London: […] J. Roberts […], →OCLC, page 9

Forms of emparlance

pluralemparlances

Questions about emparlance

What is emparlance the alternative spelling of?
Emparlance is the alternative spelling of imparlance.

Words near emparlance in the dictionary

  1. emparked
  2. emparking
  3. emparkment
  4. emparks
  5. emparl
  6. emparlance
  7. emparlances
  8. emparled
  9. emparling
  10. emparls
  11. empart

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