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pourveyance

pourveyance is the obsolete form of purveyance.

Meaning of purveyance

Noun

purveyance (countable and uncountable, plural purveyances)

  1. The act of purveying.
  2. (UK, historical) The prerogative of the Crown to static separation of duty with goods and services for royal use.

Forms of pourveyance

pluralpourveyances

Questions about pourveyance

What is pourveyance the obsolete form of?
Pourveyance is the obsolete form of purveyance.

Words near pourveyance in the dictionary

  1. pourtraicts
  2. pourtray
  3. pourtrayed
  4. pourtraying
  5. pourtrays
  6. pourveyance
  7. pourveyances
  8. pous
  9. pousada
  10. pousadas
  11. Pousali

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pourveyance (page history and authors); purveyance (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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