perceiverance en · NOUN
Etymology
Apparently from perceiver + -ance, perhaps after perseverance. Compare later perceivance.
Meanings
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(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