postponence
nounEtymology From postpone + -ence.
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Obsolete The act of deeming less important or of a lower rank.
- 18. Noting preference, or poſtponence. / Your highneſs ſhall repoſe you at the Tovver. / —I do not like the Tovver of any place. / Shakesp[eare].1755 April 15, Samuel Johnson, “Of”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume II (L–Z), London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton; […], →OCLC, column 1:
2
Obsolete The act of postponing.
- […] he hastened to relieve her anxieties, by briefly stating the postponence of his trial […]1826, Miss Crumpe, Geraldine of Desmond: or Ireland in the Reign of Elizabeth, volume 2, page 26: