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
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
After having finished the service in Yorkshire, I have had a week's tarriance at Harrowgate.
From Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by John Yeardley
Making these Tents stronger or slighter, according to the time of their tarriance.
Howbeit we made no longer tarriance in either of these two towns, for that my father had resolved to fix his abode in the city of Geneva.'
From In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays by Augustine Birrell
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