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Scots
Etymology
From Middle English ones, from Old English ānes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ens/, /eins/, /ins/
- IPA(key): /jɑns/, /jɛns/, /jɪns/, /jɪnst/
- IPA(key): /wans/, /wɑns/, /wɑnst/
Adverb
ance (not comparable)
- once
a. 1805, Jane Elliot, “A Lament for Flodden”, in English Poets of the Eighteenth Century:The English, for ance, by guile wan the day; The Flowers of the Forest, that fought aye the foremost, The prime of our land, lie cauld in the clay.
1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VI, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume II, Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 151:Hegh, sirs! but we are a hopefu' family, to be twa o' us in the Guard at ance—But there were better days wi' us ance—were there na, mither?
1871 July – 1873 February, Anthony Trollope, “Lady Eustace Procures a Pony for the Use of Her Cousin”, in The Eustace Diamonds. A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, , published 1872, →OCLC, page 104, column 1:Pownies ain't to be had for nowt in Ayrshire, as was ance, my leddie.
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