perceiverance

noun

noun

Etymology Apparently from perceiver + -ance, perhaps after perseverance. Compare later perceivance.

Obsolete Perception, awareness.

But, as (by degrees) Number did come to our perceiuerance: So, by visible formes, we are holpen to imagine, what our Line Mathematicall, is.1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface

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