Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pastime.
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- noun archaic
pastime
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Examples
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Youth must have some dalliance, of good or ill some pastance;
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For my pastance, hunt sing and dance; My heart is set,
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To have at times convenient pastance, mirth and pleasures,
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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Lo here haue I brought that shall make you pastance.
Ralph Roister Doister Nicholas Udall 1530
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But I feare it will ende with a mocke for pastance.
Ralph Roister Doister Nicholas Udall 1530
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That in this wowyng I haue ment ought but pastance?
Ralph Roister Doister Nicholas Udall 1530
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Truly most deare spouse, nought was done but for pastance.
Ralph Roister Doister Nicholas Udall 1530
qroqqa commented on the word pastance
This place he made pastance
For the platonic ass;
—Lawrence Durrell, 'Fangbrand'
archaic for "pastime"; app. < Fr. passe-temps
March 21, 2009