Tendance

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of attending to or looking after something; tending, attention. countable, uncountable

    "And up they rose as vigorous as the Sun, / Or to the Culture of the willing Glebe, / Or to the cheerful Tendance of the Flock."

  2. 2
    attendance (The act of attending or waiting) archaic, countable, uncountable

    "What but love, kindness, and all affection is her tendance upon poor Emily. To her, is she not all meekness, all love, all forbearance?"

  3. 3
    People in attendance; attendants. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "[…] his lobbies fill with tendance, / Rain sacrificial whisperings in his ear,"

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attendanceemployemploymentministrationministrypeonage

Example

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"Behind the palace, unobserved and free, / there stood a door, a secret thoroughfare / through Priam's halls. Here poor Andromache / while Priam's kingdom flourished and was fair, / to greet her husband's parents would repair / alone, or carrying with tendance fain / to Hector's father Hector's son and heir."

Etymology

See tend (“to attend”), and compare attendance.

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