portance
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French portance (“a carrying, support”), from porter (“to carry”), from Latin portare (“carry, bear, convey”).
Noun[edit]
portance (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The manner in which one carries oneself; behaviour.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- […] for in court gay portaunce he perceiu'd, / And gallant shew to be in greatest gree […]
Synonyms[edit]
- port (also a dated/archaic sense)
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
portance f (plural portances)
- lift (upward force, such as that which keeps an aircraft aloft)
- bearing pressure
Further reading[edit]
- “portance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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