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signifiaunce

signifiaunce is the alternative form of signifiance.

Meaning of signifiance

Noun

signifiance (uncountable)

  1. (Early, Modern, rare) signification, meaning
    • Of this people Iugurth aſſembled a multitude togyder and by lytell & lytell enduced & taught them by cuſtome and exercyſe to folowe the oꝛder of chyualry: to kepe array / to inſue their ſtanderdes / to obey the cōmaundementes of their capitayns / to diſcerne and haue knowlege of the ſignifiaunce of...c. 1525, Sallust, “How Iugurth aſſembled a newe army of the rude getulyans agaynſt the romayns”, in Alexander Barclay, transl., Here begynneth the famous cronycle of the warre, which the romayns had...

Questions about signifiaunce

What is signifiaunce the alternative form of?
Signifiaunce is the alternative form of signifiance.

Words near signifiaunce in the dictionary

  1. signieur
  2. signieurs
  3. signifer
  4. signifiable
  5. signifiance
  6. signifiaunce
  7. signific
  8. significance
  9. significance level
  10. significance levels
  11. significances

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Adapted from Wiktionary: signifiaunce (page history and authors); signifiance (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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