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† askancesconj.adv.Origin: Apparently a borrowing from French, combined with an English element; perhaps partly modelled on a Dutch lexical item. Etymons: as adv., French quanses. Etymology: Apparently ultimately < as adv. + Old French quanses, canses, cansez, quanse as if to say, that is to say, appearing as though, feigning, dissembling (all 12th cent.; also late 12th cent. in quanses que as if, as though) < classical Latin quam si as if, as though < quam , interrogative and relative adverb + si conditional particle (see quasi adv.), perhaps partly after Middle Dutch als quansis, als quansijs (a1325), als quans (mid 14th cent.), both ‘as if, as if to say’ (apparently < als (see as adv.) + quansijs, quansis (Dutch kwansuis, with alteration of the ending), quans (Dutch kwans) < Old French quanses, quanse).Probably associated with adverbs in a- prefix3, which may in some cases have influenced the written form of the word. Obsolete. A. conj.the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [adverb] > as if or as though c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham (1902) 35 Wanne man hys repentaunt ischriue, He scholde..by-fle Chypeans [perh. read cheans [= chance]], of sennes rote, Ase quances, He þat byflek wel lecherye Bi-ulekþ foule continaunce. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 37 And wroot the names..Ascaunces [c1415 Corpus Oxf. Ascance, c1415 Lansd. Askaunse, c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 As-caunse] that he wolde for hem preye. a1439 J. Lydgate (Bodl. 263) iv. l. 2554 A spirit of feyned pacience..As scauns she hadde been in vertu strong. tr. Palladius (Duke Humfrey) (1896) vi. l. 39 And euen therthe aboue ascaunz her noon is. c1460 (?c1400) l. 1797 They walkid to & fro..as skaunce þey knewe nauȝte. a1586 Sir P. Sidney (1590) ii. xvi. sig. Z6v Keeping a countenance ascanses she vnderstood him not. B. adv.the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > [adverb] > in supposed meaning a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) i. l. 292 She leet falle Here look a lite a-side in swych manere Ascaunces what may I not stonden here [It. quasi dicesse, E no ci si puo star]? a1450 (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1912) l. 8987 (MED) Vpon a stoole She dressed here hygh, And hoved a-scaunse: ‘Take hede of me, And thenk what I haue charge[d] the.’ 1575 G. Gascoigne Flowers (new ed.) in p. ci Therewith he raysde his heauy head alight, Askaunces Ha! in deede and thinkst thou so. the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > [adverb] c1450 C. d'Orleans (1941) l. 3667 All othir whiche þat come askaunce Ben goode to feste with straungeris soche. c1450 C. d'Orleans (1941) l . 4337 Ther goth such on askaunce Bi his devise or yet bi browderure To make an ennysen a couverture. a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 396 And so the kynge com ascawnce to sir Trystrames to comforte hym as he lay syke..But as longe as kynge Marke lyved he loved never aftir sir Trystramys. a1500 tr. La Belle Dame sans Mercy (Cambr.) l. 604 in F. J. Furnivall (1903) 102 (MED) When they so sore begynne to sigh askaunce. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < conj.adv.c1350 |