perceiverance
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Apparently from perceiver + -ance, perhaps after perseverance. Compare later perceivance.
Noun[edit]
perceiverance (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Perception, awareness. [15th–17th c.]
- 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface:
- 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: