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tarriance arch.|ˈtærɪəns|
Also 5 tary-, 5–7 tari-, 6–7 tarry-; 5–6 -ans, 5–7 -aunce, 6–7 -ence.
[f. tarry v. + -ance.]
1. The action of tarrying; delay, procrastination.
1460Paston Lett. I. 527 Besechyng your maistership not to be dysplesed with my long taryans. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 295 b, To make no ferther delaie ne taryaunce. 1563Golding Cæsar v. (1565) 137 Fabius..making no long tarience in hys iorney, met hym with hys Legion. 1576U. Fulwell Ars Adulandi vii. (1579) G iij, Better is a litle tariance then a raw dinner. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. ii. vii. 90, I am impatient of my tarriance. 1694S. Sewall Diary 6 Apr. (1878) I. 390 Sawing and fitting this board made some inconvenient Tarriance. 1808Southey Chron. Cid 173 The tarriance that had been made. 1898T. Hardy Wessex Poems 90 Worn with tarriance I care for life no more.
2. Temporary residence or continuance in a place; sojourn, abiding.
1530Palsgr. 279/2 Taryaunce, abyding, demourance. 1681R. Knox Hist. Ceylon ii. vi. 56 Making these Tents stronger or slighter, according to the time of their tarriance. 1721Strype Eccl. Mem. III. vi. 66 After a year or two's tarriance in London. 1885T. Hodgkin Italy & Inv. III. iv. viii. 307 It may have been during this tarriance at Rome that Theodoric commenced..draining the Pontine Marshes.
†3. Abiding in expectation; awaiting, waiting.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. ii. 105 To confirme them in loking for him, that they should not waxe faint with long tarriance. 1599? Shakes. Pass. Pilgr. vi, Cytherea..A longing tariance for Adonis made. 1646Trapp Comm. John xx. 6 The good ground brings forth fruit with patience or tarriance.
†4. The causing of delay; hindrance. Obs.
1598R. Bernard tr. Terence, Andria v. v, Neither is there any let or tarriance, but that I may marry her out of hand. |