sortance

English

Etymology

From sort (verb).

Noun

sortance

1. (obsolete) fittingness; appropriateness; seemliness
   • ca 1596, William Shakespeare, 2 KING HENRY IV act iv,i:

     Here doth he wish his person, with such powers
     As might hold sortance with his quality,
     The which he could not levy; whereupon
     He is retired, to ripe his growing fortunes,
     To Scotland...

Anagrams

• Canteros, Conatser, ancestor, carstone, enactors, entosarc, sarconet