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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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
His tarriance full spent, he departed And met me in Venice, And lines from her told that my jilter Was stooping to sue.
From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
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
Thus one cause of my tarriance to you I do render: Another I had as I came by the way, Which did me the longer from your company stay.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt
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
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