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tendance

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

noun tendances

  1. countable, uncountable The act of attending to or looking after something; tending, attention. And up they rose as vigorous as the Sun, / Or to the Culture of the willing Glebe, / Or to the cheerful Tendance of the Flock.
  2. archaic, countable, uncountable attendance (The act of attending or waiting) What but love, kindness, and all affection is her tendance upon poor Emily. To her, is she not all meekness, all love, all forbearance?
  3. countable, obsolete, uncountable People in attendance; attendants. […] his lobbies fill with tendance, / Rain sacrificial whisperings in his ear,

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@misc{tendance_2026,
  title = {tendance},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tendance},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}