participance

Noun

participance (countable and uncountable, plural participances)

1. Synonym of participation; the process of act of participating; involvement.
   • My participance was prurient rather than licentious and scarcely one pleasant memory of it remains from those days; as Ernest Hemingway once remarked, the sole purpose of the cabaret is for unattached men to find complaisant women.1932, F. Scott Fitzgerald, My Lost City
   • However, a possible participance of aerobic processes may be supposed on the basis of cytochrome studies. This problem was thoroughly studied by Cheah (1975), who used the cytochromes from Ascaris suum muscle mitochondria.1986, Folia Parasitologica, page 145

   Synonyms:

   participation

2. Synonym of participant.
   • If that protection from liability is going to continue to apply, participances are going to have to have enough information to enable them to make considered, intelligent investment decisions.1998, United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem, The Year 2000 Technology Problem
   • Approximately 250 participances will be attending this meeting and will require an estimated 402 "Room Nights" at the hotel.2000, Commerce Business Daily - Issues 2504-2543, page 4

   Synonyms:

   participant