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† ˈchevance, ˈchievance obs.
Forms: 4–5 chevaunce, 5 chy-, chevaunche, 6–7 chevance, 7 cheavance, chievance.
[a. F. chevance the wealth that one has acquired, f. OF. chever to finish, f. chief, chef (chev-) head. Cf. achieve, achievance.]
1. Success in acquiring wealth; fortune.
1393Gower Conf. II. 275 Netheles men se pouerte..Full ofte make a great chevaunce And take of love his avauntage. 1481Caxton Myrr. i. v. 28 By their auarice & cheuaunce the sciences come to nought. 1577Holinshed Chron. II. 348 Such chevance made the legat..that he got togither twelve thousand marks towards his charges. 1600Holland Livy xxx. xlii. 770 Those..who happen to meet with some new good chevance [bona fortuna].
2. concr. Acquired wealth, fortune, estate.
1475Caxton Jason 66 Alle my richesses and cheuaunche. 1490Caxton Eneydos vi. 23 Destructyue of theyr personis, honoures, goodes, and chyuaunches. 1601Holland Pliny xix. iv, At Rome, a good garden..was thought a poore mans cheiuance; it went..for land and liuing. 1603― Plutarch's Mor. 46 What tell you me of Pluto [= Plutus] and his chievance.
3. Raising of money. to make chevance: to raise money or funds. Cf. chevisance.
1538Latimer Serm. & Rem. (1845) 400 He was not able to make provision for household; and therefore required the best mitre, the best cross, and another thing or two, to make chevance withal for provision. 1563Foxe A. & M. (1583) 1865 As al is gone, you would fain haue me make another cheuance with the Bishops lands. 1622Bacon Hen. VII Wks. (Bohn) 354 Unlawful chievances and exchanges, which is bastard usury. 1645E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (1662) 269 You..would make a cheavance on Church lands, etc.
4. Accomplishment, achievement.
1563Foxe A. & M. (1596) 527/2 What a matter of howe great cheuance it is, wherein so many and so great difficulties do lie. 1600Holland Livy 439 (R.) The vow made unto Mars for the good cheevance of that war. |