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▪ I. tendence Now rare and literary.|ˈtɛndəns|
Also 7–8 -ance.
[ad. med.L. tendentia (Bonaventura a 1274, Duns Scotus a 1308), f. L. tendentem, pr. pple. of tendĕre: see tend v.2 and -ence: cf. F. tendance (12th c. in Godef. Compl.).]
= next.
1. = tendency 1.
1627Sanderson Serm. I. 259 There shall appear..a direct tendance to the advancement of Gods glory. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. i. i. 7 The scope and tendence of this Discourse is to Demonstrate, that [etc.]. 1714R. Fiddes Pract. Disc. ii. 219 Afflictions have..a tendence to promote our spiritual good. 1833S. Austin Charac. Goethe II. 331 A melancholy proof of the modern realistic tendence.
†2. = tendency 1 b. Also fig. Obs.
1644Digby Nat. Bodies xi. (1658) 116 These atoms..are forced from the complete effect of their tendance, by the violence of the current. 1645Owen Two Catech. xii. Wks. 1855 I. 482 note, The death that Christ underwent was eternal in its own nature and tendence. 1698Tyson in Phil. Trans. XX. 118 The Tendence or Direction of the Muscular Fibres of this Pair.
b. attrib.: tendence-writing, a writing with a purpose (Ger. tendenz-schrift). Cf. tendency 3.
1875M. Arnold in Contemp. Rev. XXV. 968 Our Gospels are more or less Tendenz-Schriften, tendence-writings,—writings to serve an aim or bent of their several authors.
▪ II. tendence, -ency
obs. ff. tendance, -ancy. |