tarriance
Americannoun
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delay.
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sojourn.
noun
Etymology
Origin of tarriance
First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English; see origin at tarry 1, -ance
Example Sentences
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So now, being old, my children eye askance My slowly dwindling store, And crave my mite; till, worn with tarriance, I care for life no more.
From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
Our short tarriance here has excited curiosity to know who and what we are, and a great desire for books; and a liberal supply has been furnished them.
From Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by John Yeardley
Up! break the sluggish bonds Of tarriance; with loud din Cithaeron calls, Steed-taming Epidaurus, and thy hounds, Taygete; and hark! the assenting groves With peal on peal reverberate the roar.
From The Georgics by Virgil
He who was born in happy hour made no tarriance; he drew on his legs hose of fine cloth, and put on over them shoes which were richly worked.
From Chronicle of the Cid by Robert Southey
So feared the King, And, after two days' tarriance there, returned.
From Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
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