tendance

English

Etymology

See tend (“to attend”), and compare attendance.

Noun

tendance (countable and uncountable, plural tendances)

1. (archaic) The act of attending or waiting; attendance.
   • 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 136:

     What but love, kindness, and all affection is her tendance upon poor Emily. To her, is she not all meekness, all love, all forbearance?

2. (obsolete) Persons in attendance; attendants.
   • 1607, William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens, I. i. 83:

     […] his lobbies fill with tendance, / Rain sacrificial whisperings in his ear,

References

• “tendance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑ̃.dɑ̃s/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

tendance f (plural tendances)

1. tendency, propensity

Derived terms

• avoir la tendance de (To tend to)

Further reading

• “tendance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.