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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

perceiverance en · NOUN

Etymology

Apparently from perceiver + -ance, perhaps after perseverance. Compare later perceivance.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) Perception, awareness.
    • But, as (by degrees) Number did come to our perceiuerance: So, by visible formes, we are holpen to imagine, what our Line Mathematicall, is. 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface