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sortance

sortance noun: fittingness; appropriateness; seemliness.

Noun

sortance

  1. (obsolete) fittingness; appropriateness; seemliness
    • Here doth he wish his person, with such powers
      As might hold sortance with his quality,
      The which he could not levy; whereupon
      He is retired, to ripe his growing fortunes,
      To Scotland...ca 1596, William Shakespeare, 2 KING HENRY IV act iv,i

Origin of sortance

From sort (verb).

Questions about sortance

What does sortance mean?
Sortance means fittingness; appropriateness; seemliness.
What part of speech is sortance?
Sortance is a noun.

Words near sortance in the dictionary

  1. sortagging
  2. sortags
  3. sortakinda
  4. sortal
  5. sortals
  6. sortance
  7. sortase
  8. sortases
  9. sortation
  10. sortation system
  11. sortation systems

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