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† reˈsultancy Obs.
[See prec. and -ancy.]
1. = resultance 3 a.
1615T. Adams Two Sons 68 Our children, as the sweete resultancies and living pictures of ourselves. 1628Earle Microcosm. (Arb.) 71 A Herald is the spawne, or indeed but the resultancie of Nobility. 1675Baxter Cath. Theol. ii. viii. 186 As a resultancy from those Gifts. 1701Norris Ideal World i. ii. 59 The very..nature of relation..is not a thing intended by itself, but a meer resultancy.
b. = resultance 3 b.
1628T. Spencer Logick 10 A resultancy or reflection, proceeding from a being obiected to our vnderstanding. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 119 In the firmament of heaven be many Starres;..of sundry resultancies and apparitions; of the first, second, third magnitude, as they use to speak.
2. = resultance 4.
1630Prynne Anti-Armin. 115 If Gods fore-sight and euerlasting Decrees haue their resultancie from the wills of men. 1640Bp. Reynolds Passions xxxii. 399 From Nature generated..by secret and ineffable Resultancy and Emanation. 1683J. Corbet Free Actions ii. xii. 20 Which Relation..follows the said fundamentum by a bare Resultancy, without any further Causation.
3. = resultance 2 b.
1637Heylin Brief Answ. 26 By way of Corollarie, or resultancie out of all the premisses. 1651Raleigh's Ghost 73 From all which, this one true resultancy or conclusion may infallibly be gathered. 1682Foxes & Firebrands ii. 86 The resultancy of this Story is home and pat. |