ance

See also: -ance and Ance

English

Adverb

ance

1. (chiefly Scotland) Alternative spelling of once
   • a. 1805, Jane Elliot, “A Lament for Flodden”, in English Poets of the Eighteenth Century‎^[1]:

     The English, for ance, by guile wan the day; The Flowers of the Forest, that fought aye the foremost, The prime of our land, lie cauld in the clay.

   • 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VI, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, [...] In Four Volumes (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume II, Edinburgh: Printed [by James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, OCLC 819902302, page 151:

     Hegh, sirs! but we are a hopefu' family, to be twa o' us in the Guard at ance—But there were better days wi' us ance—were there na, mither?

   • 1871 July – 1873 February​, Anthony Trollope, “Lady Eustace Procures a Pony for the Use of Her Cousin”, in The Eustace Diamonds. A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, […], published 1872, OCLC 1332510, page 104, column 1:

     Pownies ain't to be had for nowt in Ayrshire, as was ance, my leddie.

Anagrams

• Caen, CanE, Cane, Cena, Nace, acne, cane