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单词 compearance
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compearancen.

Brit. /kəmˈpɪərəns/, /kəmˈpɪərn̩s/, U.S. /kəmˈpɪrəns/, Scottish English /kəmˈpirəns/
Forms: Also Middle English–1600s compeirance, 1500s–1600s comperance.
Etymology: < French comparance, -ence, < comparoir to compear v.: subsequently assimilated to the latter; compare appearance n.
Scots Law.
1. The action of compearing, or formally presenting oneself in court as a party to a cause.
ΚΠ
1427 Sc. Acts Jas. I (1597) §101 Of them of ilk Schire, that awe compeirance in Parliament or Councel.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 16 Williame, Bruther to King Malcolme..and of his Comperance befoir King Henrie of Ingland tueiching Northumberland.
c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 57 For his not compeirans both he and the rest who did not compeir war put to the horne.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. i. 14 The justice took the word o' the tane for the compearance o' the tither.
1884 Brit. & Foreign Evangelical Rev. Oct. 679 Compearance before the delegates from the Synod of Glasgow and Ayr.
2. Appearance (of many together). rare.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [noun] > appearing or becoming visible > of many together
compearance1667
1667 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) v. xxxviii. 517 The whole Skie was filled with Myriads of Myriads of Shapes in this great Compearance.
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