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  • noun Obsolete form of entrance.

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Examples

  • When he is here, sodainly will I returne home, and upon thy hearing of my entraunce: to save his owne credite, and thee from detection, thou shalt require him to enter this Chest, untill such time as I am gone forth againe; which he doing, for both your safeties, so soon as he is in the chest, take the key and locke him up fast.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Sir (quoth he) you cannot reach Pavia, but night will abridge you of any entraunce there.

    The Decameron 2004

  • By the entraunce of the curtaine there came in thirty two Nymphes, whereof sixteene were apparrelled in cloth of gold (eyght vniformally without difference of degrees) afterwards one of those sixteene was apparrelled in princely robes lyke a King, and the other lyke a Queene, with two tower-keepers or Rookes, as wee tearme them, two counsell-keepers or Secretaries, wee tearme them Bishoppes, and two

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • This life is a perpetuall misery and tempest: Death then is the issue of our miseries and entraunce of the porte where wee shall ride in safetie from all windes.

    A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier Robert Garnier 1591

  • The entraunce indeede is hard, if our selues make it harde, comming thither with a tormented spirite, a troubled minde, a wauering and irresolute thought.

    A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier Robert Garnier 1591

  • You will say, there is difficultie in the passage: So is there no Hauen, no Porte, whereinto the entraunce is not straite and combersome.

    A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier Robert Garnier 1591

  • The streetes stopte vp with gazing multitudes, commaund our armed Officers with Halberds, make way for entraunce of the prisoners.

    Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590

  • It lieth at the mouthe and entraunce into the Gulfe of Bahama.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584

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