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resultance Now rare.|rɪˈzʌltəns|
Also 5 -auns, -ans.
[Prob. ad. med.L. *resultantia (cf. Sp. and Pg. resultancia), f. resultāre: see result v. and -ance.]
†1. Origin, beginning. Obs. rare—1.
c1440J. Capgrave Life St. Kath. iii. 704 For of man & godd hys persone..hath take resultauns.
†2.
a. The result of deliberation; a decision.
1610Donne Pseudo-martyr Pref. C j, It is easie to obserue, what the Collection and resultanse vpon this conclusion will be.
†b. The result of combination or condensation; the sum or gist of something. Obs.
1610Donne Pseudo-martyr 245 He speakes out of the strength and resultance of many lawes and Canons there alleadged. a1639Wotton Educ. in Reliq. (1672) 82 If in these external marks, or signatures there be any certainty, it must be taken from that which I have formerly called the Total Resultance. 1640Walton Life Donne (1670) 62 He left the resultance of 1400 Authors, most of them abridged and analysed with his own hand.
3.
†a. Something which issues, proceeds, or emanates from another thing. Obs.
1615Jackson Orig. Unbelief xiii. 99 Sensible obiects..grant a resultance of such a form or stampe of them in the eye. a1631Donne Poems (1650) 212 He would..thence inferre that soules were but Resultances from her. 1680Waller Div. Medit. (1839) 23 That placency which we take to be in them, is but a resultance of our own Minds.
†b. A reflection (of light). Also fig. Obs.
1629T. Adams Happiness Ch. Wks. 574 Let a looking-glasse be set before him, it will reflect it to his eyes, hee shall read it by the resultance. 1638Randolph's Muses Looking-Gl. Prefatory Verses, I confesse that power which workes in mee Is but a weake resultance tooke from thee. 1652Benlowes Theoph. Author's Design, I'm but a faint Resultance from Thy Light Which, at Sol's Rise and Set enchears my Sight.
c. A result, effect, or outcome. Now rare.
1635Howell Lett. (1892) II. 655 According to y⊇ resultance of his particular deeds. a1648Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1683) 342 Yet this good Resultance followed, that it made him take the more care to be Just. 1664Power Exp. Philos. iii. 193 The old Dogmatists..that onely gaz'd at the visible effects and last Resultances of things.
1881Blackw. Mag. May 564/2 In all these resultances..the sword invariably maintained..the great striking characteristic of its form of proceeding.
†4. The fact of issuing or resulting (from something); esp. by resultance, derivatively. Obs.
1635Jackson Humiliation Son of God iv. 39 Accidents had their beginnings as appurtenances to their subjects, by resultance onely. a1660Hammond Serm. Wks. 1684 IV. 607 We may not think so vulgarly of Scripture, as to dream that any title of it came by resultance or casually into the world. 1680Counterplots 7 Whatever is properly and essentially good must..be so by its resultance from this Holy Being.
†5. Resilience, rise. Obs. rare—1.
a1633Austin Medit. (1635) 85 Most of the Seers..of this world goe (first) by the ground-line to seeke a false Ioy on Earth, whence it is not possible there should be any Resultance to make an Angle up-ward. |