Hance vs Ance - What's the difference?
hance | ance |
(obsolete) To raise, to elevate.
A curve or arc, especially in architecture or in the design of a ship.
* 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
(chiefly, Scotland)
* {{quote-book, year=a. 1805, author=Jane Elliot, title=English Poets of the Eighteenth Century, chapter=A Lament for Flodden, edition=
, passage=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. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1818, author=Sir Walter Scott, title=The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2, chapter=, edition=
, passage="If I were ance at Lunnon," said Jeanie, in exculpation, "I am amaist sure I could get means to speak to the queen about my sister's life." }}
* {{quote-book, year=1873, author=Anthony Trollope, title=The Eustace Diamonds, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Pownies ain't to be had for nowt in Ayrshire, as was ance , my leddie." }}
As a verb hance
is to raise, to elevate.As a noun hance
is a curve or arc, especially in architecture or in the design of a ship.As a proper noun Hance
is {{surname|patronymic|from=given names}.As an adverb ance is
an alternative spelling of lang=en.hance
English
Etymology 1
See “enhance”.Verb
(hanc)- (Lydgate)
Etymology 2
Anglo-Norman, from Old French haulce .Noun
(en noun)- He wears a minimal white cotton brief, and is pleased by the hance of its pouch, a catenary dip as he faces the mirror, the profile navicular and ostent.
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Adverb
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