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Achievance
Achievance A*chiev"ance, n. [Cf. OF. achevance.]
Achievement. [Obs.] --Sir T. Elyot.
Advance
Advance Ad*vance", v. i.
1. To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to
greet me.
2. To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to
advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.
3. To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred
or promoted.
Advanced to a level with ancient peers. --Prescott.
Advance
Advance Ad*vance", a.
Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced;
as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body
of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due;
advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming
volume, received in advance of the time of publication.
AdvanceAdvance Ad*vance", n. [Cf. F. avance, fr. avancer. See
Advance, v.]
1. The act of advancing or moving forward or upward;
progress.
2. Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally,
or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or
religion; an advance in rank or office.
3. An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an
advance on the prime cost of goods.
4. The first step towards the attainment of a result;
approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to
adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an
offer; -- usually in the plural.
[He] made the like advances to the dissenters.
--Swift.
5. A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received
(as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on
loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus
furnished; money or value supplied beforehand.
I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances.
--Jay.
The account was made up with intent to show what
advances had been made. --Kent.
In advance
(a) In front; before.
(b) Beforehand; before an equivalent is received.
(c) In the state of having advanced money on account; as,
A is in advance to B a thousand dollars or pounds. AdvancedAdvanced Ad*vanced", a.
1. In the van or front.
2. In the front or before others, as regards progress or
ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers.
3. Far on in life or time.
A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard
experience written in his wrinkles. --Hawthorne.
Advanced guard, a detachment of troops which precedes the
march of the main body. Advanced guardAdvanced Ad*vanced", a.
1. In the van or front.
2. In the front or before others, as regards progress or
ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers.
3. Far on in life or time.
A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard
experience written in his wrinkles. --Hawthorne.
Advanced guard, a detachment of troops which precedes the
march of the main body. AggrievanceAggrievance Ag*griev"ance, n. [OF. agrevance, fr. agrever. See
Aggrieve.]
Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance. [Archaic] Approvance
Approvance Ap*prov"ance, n.
Approval. [Archaic] --Thomson.
Arrivance
Arrivance Ar*riv"ance, n.
Arrival. [Obs.] --Shak.
ChievanceChievance Chiev"ance, n. [OF. chevance property, equiv. To
chevisance, fr. chevir to accomplish. See Chevisance.]
An unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported as
discount. [Obs.] --Bacon. ConnivanceConnivance Con*niv"ance, n. [Cf. F. connivence, L.
conniventia.]
1. Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or
wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or
co["o]peration.
2. (Law) Corrupt or guilty assent to wrongdoing, not
involving actual participation in, but knowledge of, and
failure to prevent or oppose it.
Syn: See Collusion. ContrivanceContrivance Con*triv"ance, n.
1. The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or
planning.
The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by
its construction, contrivance and design.
Contrivance must have had a contriver. --Paley.
2. The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of
parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice;
arrangement.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to
provide for human wants. --Burke.
Syn: Device; plan; scheme; invention; machine; project;
design; artifice; shift. See Device. Disadvance
Disadvance Dis`ad*vance" (?; 61), v. t. & i. [Pref. dis- +
advance: cf. OF. desavancier.]
To draw back, or cause to draw back. [Obs.] --Spenser.
GrievanceGrievance Griev"ance, n. [OF. grevance. See Grieve, v. t.]
1. A cause of uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and
suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or
resistance, as arising from injustice, tyranny, etc.;
injury.
2. Grieving; grief; affliction.
The . . . grievance of a mind unreasonably yoked.
--Milton.
Syn: Burden; oppression; hardship; trouble. Grievancer
Grievancer Griev"an*cer, n.
One who occasions a grievance; one who gives ground for
complaint. [Obs.]
Petition . . . against the bishops as grand
grievancers. --Fuller.
In advanceAdvance Ad*vance", n. [Cf. F. avance, fr. avancer. See
Advance, v.]
1. The act of advancing or moving forward or upward;
progress.
2. Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally,
or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or
religion; an advance in rank or office.
3. An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an
advance on the prime cost of goods.
4. The first step towards the attainment of a result;
approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to
adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an
offer; -- usually in the plural.
[He] made the like advances to the dissenters.
--Swift.
5. A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received
(as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on
loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus
furnished; money or value supplied beforehand.
I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances.
--Jay.
The account was made up with intent to show what
advances had been made. --Kent.
In advance
(a) In front; before.
(b) Beforehand; before an equivalent is received.
(c) In the state of having advanced money on account; as,
A is in advance to B a thousand dollars or pounds. Inobservance
Inobservance In`ob*serv"ance, a. [L. inobservantia : cf. F.
inobservance.]
Want or neglect of observance. --Bacon.
Irrelavance
Irrelavance Ir*rel"a*vance, n.
Irrelevancy.
Nonobservance
Nonobservance Non`ob*serv"ance, n.
Neglect or failure to observe or fulfill.
ObservanceObservance Ob*serv"ance, n. [F. observance, L. observantia.
See Observant.]
1. The act or practice of observing or noticing with
attention; a heeding or keeping with care; performance; --
usually with a sense of strictness and fidelity; as, the
observance of the Sabbath is general; the strict
observance of duties.
It is a custom More honored in the breach than the
observance. --Shak.
2. An act, ceremony, or rite, as of worship or respect;
especially, a customary act or service of attention; a
form; a practice; a rite; a custom.
At dances These young folk kept their observances.
--Chaucer.
Use all the observance of civility. --Shak.
Some represent to themselves the whole of religion
as consisting in a few easy observances. --Rogers.
O I that wasted time to tend upon her, To compass
her with sweet observances! --Tennyson.
3. Servile attention; sycophancy. [Obs.]
Salads and flesh, such as their haste could get,
Served with observance. --Chapman.
This is not atheism, But court observance. --Beau. &
Fl.
Syn: Observance, Observation. These words are
discriminated by the two distinct senses of observe. To
observe means (1) to keep strictly; as, to observe a
fast day, and hence, observance denotes the keeping or
heeding with strictness; (2) to consider attentively, or
to remark; and hence, observation denotes either the act
of observing, or some remark made as the result thereof.
We do not say the observation of Sunday, though the word
was formerly so used. The Pharisees were curious in
external observances; the astronomers are curious in
celestial observations.
Love rigid honesty, And strict observance of
impartial laws. --Roscommon. Perceivance
Perceivance Per*ceiv"ance, n.
Power of perceiving. [Obs.] ``The senses and common
perceivance.' --Milton.
Readvance
Readvance Re`ad*vance", v. i.
To advance again.
Relevance
Relevance Rel"e*vance (r?l"?*vans), Relevancy Rel"e*van*cy
(-van*s?), n.
1. The quality or state of being relevant; pertinency;
applicability.
Its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore.
--Poe.
2. (Scots Law) Sufficiency to infer the conclusion.
Reservance
Reservance Re*serv"ance (r?-z?rv"ans), n.
Reservation. [R.]
Survivance
Survivance Sur*viv"ance, Survivancy Sur*viv"an*cy, n. [F.
survivance.]
Survivorship. [R.]
His son had the survivance of the stadtholdership.
--Bp. Burnet.
Unobservance
Unobservance Un`ob*serv"ance, n.
Want or neglect of observance; inobservance. --Whitlock.
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