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manurance

manurance noun: cultivation.

Noun

manurance (countable and uncountable, plural manurances)

  1. (obsolete) cultivation
    • although there should none of them fall by the sword , nor be saine by the soldier , yett thus beinge keepte from manurance , and theire cattle from runinge abroade1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...
    • For as the wronging or cherishing of seeds or young plants is that that is most important to their thriving, and as it was noted that the first six kings being in truth as tutors of the state of Rome in the infancy thereof was the principal cause of the immense greatness of that state which...1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas...

Forms of manurance

pluralmanurances

Origin of manurance

From manure + -ance.

Questions about manurance

What does manurance mean?
Manurance means cultivation.
What part of speech is manurance?
Manurance is a noun.
What is the plural of manurance?
The plural of manurance is manurances.

Words near manurance in the dictionary

  1. manumycins
  2. manuport
  3. manuports
  4. manurable
  5. manurage
  6. manurance
  7. manurances
  8. manure
  9. manure fork
  10. manure forks
  11. manure spreader

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