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Webster 1828 Edition

Survivance

SURVI'VANCE

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Noun.

Survivorship. [Little used.]

Definition 2024

survivance

survivance

English

Alternative forms

survivancy

Noun

survivance

survivorship
- Bishop Burnet
  His son had the survivance of the stadtholdership.
(Canada) The survival of Francophone culture in the face of Anglo-American hegemony.

French

Etymology

From survivre +‎ -ance

Noun

survivance f ‎(plural survivances)

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