Aidance

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Aid; assistance; help. countable, uncountable

    "Since sware the Parcæ unto me, their friend, / they shall adore my name, my favour prize; / and, as their feats of armèd prowess shend / all feats of rival Rome, I lief devise / some mode of aidance in what things I may, / far as our force o'er man extendeth sway."

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"Since sware the Parcæ unto me, their friend, / they shall adore my name, my favour prize; / and, as their feats of armèd prowess shend / all feats of rival Rome, I lief devise / some mode of aidance in what things I may, / far as our force o'er man extendeth sway."

Etymology

From Old French aidance, from aidier (“help, aid”); equivalent to aid + -ance.

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