Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of operating; operation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of operating or working; operation.
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- noun The act of
operating orworking ;operation .
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Examples
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Rollo's thoughts were doubtless contrived in the cuticle and knew no deeper operance; but he always uttered his impressions with, under his mask, an air of keen and seasoned personal observation.
Romance Island Zona Gale 1906
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Here too the same necessity meets us, an antecedent unity (I speak not of the parent plant, but of an agency antecedent in order of operance, yet remaining present as the conservative and reproductive power,) must here too be supposed.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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