Participance

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of participation; the process of act of participating; involvement. countable, uncountable

    "My participance was prurient rather than licentious and scarcely one pleasant memory of it remains from those days; as Ernest Hemingway once remarked, the sole purpose of the cabaret is for unattached men to find complaisant women."

  2. 2
    Synonym of participant. countable, uncountable

    "If that protection from liability is going to continue to apply, participances are going to have to have enough information to enable them to make considered, intelligent investment decisions."

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participantparticipation

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"My participance was prurient rather than licentious and scarcely one pleasant memory of it remains from those days; as Ernest Hemingway once remarked, the sole purpose of the cabaret is for unattached men to find complaisant women."

Etymology

From participate + -ance.

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