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† apparence, -ance Obs.
Also aparence, -ance, -aunce.
[a. OFr. aparence, -ance. The earlier form of the n. answering to adj. apparent, which was subseq. refashioned as appearance, by assimilation to the vb. appear. Apparence survived, esp. in senses which connected it more closely with apparent than appear, till c 1686: cf. next.]
1. = appearance (which see for other quotations) in all its senses.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame 265 Allis what harme doth apparence Whan hit is fals in existence. 1686Goad Celest. Bod. i. iv. 11 Some Excess..but whether..as to Wind, or Drought, or Wet, they [comets] do not determine; that Determination belongeth to no one Apparence.
2. The position of being heir apparent; apparency.
c1375Wyclif Serm. cxxi. Wks. 1869 I. 402 Ȝif a man be eire of þe blisse of hevene..apparaunce of þis heritage is more licli to trewe men. 1628Coke On Litt. 35 b, It is in respect of the constant and perpetuall apparance that the son and heire apparent may endow his wife of his father's Land. |