-ence Definition

əns, 'ns
suffix
State or condition.
Dependence.
American Heritage
Action.
Emergence.
American Heritage
affix
Act, fact, quality, state, result, or degree.
Conference, excellence.
Webster's New World

Origin of -ence

  • Middle English from Latin -entia (from -ēns -ent- -ent) and from Old French -ance -ance

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • ME < OFr -ence & L -entia < -ent- (see -ent) + -ia, n. ending

    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition

  • From French, from Latin -entia.

    From Wiktionary

-ence Sentence Examples

  • One of the chief problems the association wished to solve was that of the exist ence and course of the river Niger, which was believed by some authorities to be identical with the Congo.

  • The process is the same as that of finding the sum or differ I ence of 3 sixpences and 5 fourpences; we cannot subtract 3 sixpenny-bits from 5 fourpenny-bits, but we can express each as an equivalent number of Ones.

  • We have, strictly speaking, no know- of the ledge " of real beings beyond our own self-conscious exist- external ence, the existence of God, and the existence of objects world.

  • The conformation of those flowers a consists essentially in the pres- ' 'A B ence of a six-parted perianth, the three outer segments of which correspond to a calyx, the three inner ones to a corolla.

  • This epoch, indeed, is the epoch of maximum submerg,ence during the period, and the maximum since the Ordovician.

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