approvance

English

Etymology

From Old French aprovance.

Noun

approvance (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Approval.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     […] then gan all the quire of birdes / Their diuerse notes t'attune vnto his lay, / As in approuance of his pleasing words.

   • 1821, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 555:

     I resolved […] to withdraw, formally, our claim. I am sure of your approveance for this prudence.

Alternative forms

• approvaunce (obsolete)