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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. State or condition: dependence.
  2. n. Action: emergence.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. See -ance, -ancy, and -ent.

Wiktionary

  1. n. non-productive Same as -ance; having the state or condition of.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. A noun suffix signifying action, state, or quality; also, that which relates to the action or state; as in emergence, diffidence, diligence, influence, difference, excellence. See -ance.

Etymologies

  1. From French, from Latin -entia. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Latin -entia (from -ēns, -ent-, -ent) and from Old French -ance, -ance. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. lenience

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