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subsidency

subsidency is the archaic form of subsidence.

Meaning of subsidence

Noun

subsidence (countable and uncountable, plural subsidences)

  1. The process of becoming less active or severe.
    • The subdual or subsidence of the more violent passions.1754, William Warburton, Sermon preached before the King, at Kensington, October 27, 1754
  2. A sinking of something to a lower level, especially of part of the surface of the Earth due to underground excavation, seismic activity or underground or ground water depletion, or the rocks in a geological basin, due to continued deposition from above.
    • In the early hours of April 28, 1953, it was completely blocked by a subsidence, which caused the death of five persons, when a pair of semi-detached houses collapsed into the cavity.1957 June, “Notes and News: Clifton Hill Tunnel, Swinton”, in Railway Magazine, page 433

Forms of subsidency

pluralsubsidencies

Questions about subsidency

What is subsidency the archaic form of?
Subsidency is the archaic form of subsidence.

Words near subsidency in the dictionary

  1. subsidence
  2. subsidence crater
  3. subsidence craters
  4. subsidences
  5. subsidencies
  6. subsidency
  7. subsider
  8. subsiders
  9. subsides
  10. subsidiaries
  11. subsidiarily

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subsidency (page history and authors); subsidence (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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