Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Purveyance.

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Examples

  • And anone the body of Saynte Denys reysed hymselfe up and bare his hede beetwene his armes, as the angels ladde hym two leghes fro the place which is sayd the hille of the martyrs unto the place where he now resteth by his election and the purveance of god.

    The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893

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