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intendance

intendance is the alternative form of intendancy.

Meaning of intendancy

Noun

intendancy (plural intendancies)

  1. The office or employment of an intendant.
    • By the 1780s [in France] four quarterings of nobility were needed even to buy a commission in the army, all bishops were nobles and even the keystone of royal administration, the intendancies, had been largely recaptured by them.1962, Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution. 1789-1848, page 57
  2. A territorial district overseen by an intendant.

Forms of intendance

pluralintendances

Questions about intendance

What is intendance the alternative form of?
Intendance is the alternative form of intendancy.

Words near intendance in the dictionary

  1. intenable
  2. intence
  3. intencely
  4. intend
  5. intendable
  6. intendance
  7. intendances
  8. intendancies
  9. intendancy
  10. intendant
  11. intendants

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Adapted from Wiktionary: intendance (page history and authors); intendancy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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