Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A rebound; resilience; reflection.
  • noun The act of resulting; that which results; a result.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of resulting; that which results; a result.

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  • noun archaic The act of resulting; that which results; a result.

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Examples

  • His thoroughness of study may be judged from the fact that "he left the resultance of 1,400 authors, most of them abridged and analyzed with his own hand."

    The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914

  • Such desires will follow by a kind of natural resultance upon the lively apprehension of any divine excellent thing, and secret complacency in it, and a stirring of the heart to be possessed with it, will almost prevent deliberation.

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

  • And if this seem strange, it may gain a belief by the visible fruits of his labours; some of which remain as testimonies of what is here written: for he left the resultance of 1400 authors, most of them abridged and analysed with his own hand; he left also six score of his sermons, all written with his own hand; also an exact and laborious treatise concerning self-murder, called Biathanatos; wherein all the laws violated by that act are diligently surveyed, and judiciously censured: a treatise written in his younger days, which alone might declare him then not only perfect in the civil and canon law but in many other such studies and arguments as enter not into the consideration of many that labour to be thought great clerks, and pretend to know all things.

    The Life of Dr. Donne. Paras. 50-99 1909

  • And if this seem strange, it may gain a belief by the visible fruits of his labours; some of which remain as testimonies of what is here written: for he left the resultance of 1400 authors, most of them abridged and analysed with his own hand: he left also six score of his sermons, all written with his own hand, also an exact and laborious Treatise concerning self-murder, called Biathanatos; wherein all the laws violated by that act are diligently surveyed, and judiciously censured: a Treatise written in his younger days, which alone might declare him then not only perfect in the Civil and Canon

    Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601

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