Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abbreviations of encyclopedia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A noun suffix having much the same meaning as -
ence , but more commonly signifying thequality orstate . See-ancy .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- suffix Forming abstract nouns denoting
states ,conditions , orqualities .
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