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aidance en · NOUN

Etymology

From Old French aidance, from aidier (“help, aid”); equivalent to aid + -ance.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Aid; assistance; help.
   • Since sware the Parcæ unto me, their friend, / they shall adore my name, my favour prize; / and, as their feats of armèd prowess shend / all feats of rival Rome, I lief devise / some mode of aidance in what things I may, / far as our force o'er man extendeth sway. 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 339:
   • I hoped your aidance in mine every chance[.] 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XI, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 108:

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