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Webster 1913 Edition

Portance

Por′tance

,

Noun.

See

, carriage, demeanor.

[Obs.]

Spenser. Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Portance

PORTANCE

,

Noun.

Air; mien; carriage; port; demeanor.

Definition 2025

portance

portance

English

Noun

portance

(obsolete) The manner in which one carries oneself; personal carriage; bearing; deportment; mien.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:
  for in court gay portaunce he perceiu'd, / And gallant shew to be in greatest gree [...].

Synonyms

port (also a dated/archaic sense)

Anagrams

French

Etymology

porter +‎ -ance

Noun

portance f ‎(plural portances)

lift (upward force, such as that which keeps an aircraft aloft)
bearing pressure

Anagrams

coparent