participance

English

Etymology

participate +‎ -ance

Noun

participance (countable and uncountable, plural participances)

1. Synonym of participation; the process of act of participating; involvement.
   • 1932, F. Scott Fitzgerald, My Lost City:

     My participance was prurient rather than licentious and scarcely one pleasant memory of it remains from those days; as Ernest Hemingway once remarked, the sole purpose of the cabaret is for unattached men to find complaisant women.

   • 1986, Folia Parasitologica, page 145:

     However, a possible participance of aerobic processes may be supposed on the basis of cytochrome studies. This problem was thoroughly studied by Cheah (1975), who used the cytochromes from Ascaris suum muscle mitochondria.

   • 2007, Sean C. Cusack, High School Memoirs: a Journey in Surrealism, page 449:

     During homeroom we designed our flag for participance in the 'Olympic' themed pep rally.

   • 2013, Regine Eckardt, Adverbs, Events, and Other Things:

     Examples (37) and (38) show that it is not only most convenient to link instruments and beneficients to events by using participance relations, but that moreover no further grammatical "licensing" processes operate which would rule out anaphoric sentances like the ones above.

2. Synonym of participant
   • 1998, United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem, The Year 2000 Technology Problem:

     If that protection from liability is going to continue to apply, participances are going to have to have enough information to enable them to make considered, intelligent investment decisions.

   • 2000, Commerce Business Daily - Issues 2504-2543, page 4:

     Approximately 250 participances will be attending this meeting and will require an estimated 402 "Room Nights" at the hotel.

   • 2012, Education, page 474:

     The participances of the study includes 378 high school students in total (192 female and 186 male).