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provenience|prəʊˈviːnɪəns|
[f. L. prōvenient-em, pr. pple. of prōvenīre to provene: see -ence. Preferred to provenance by those who object to the French form of the latter: cf. convenance, convenience.]
= provenance. Now chiefly U.S. (and to some extent Canad.).
Elsewhere provenance is the more usual form.
1882Century Mag. Aug. 632/2 Wherever..its provenience is stated, I received the information from General Cesnola in person. 1895A. J. Evans in Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. XIV. 276 Engraved stones of other types..of uncertain provenience were obtained in Candia. 1899R. Ellis in Class. Rev. 131/2 The readings reported as coming from the Gyraldinus were not always to be treated as if we had any certainty of their provenience. 1955J. R. Hulbert Dicts. Brit. & Amer. 54 It would be redundant and space consuming to give two pronunciations and indicate their provenience every time a word containing an r in this position turned up. 1968P. M. Postal Aspects Phonol. Theory iv. 71 Thus in English the gross divisions seem to correspond to the Germanic, Romance, and Greek provenience of forms. 1978Maledicta 1977 Winter 133, I am concerned here particularly with some lexical reflections of the dislike of foreigners, as those reflections appear in English, although they are certainly not all of English provenience. 1978New York 3 Apr. 81/2 Why should the hero's hypertrophic sense of smell—heightened to the point where, blindfolded, he can ferret out olfactorily the exact provenience and writing thickness of a ballpoint pen—be the means for his blowing up the world? |