conveyance

• conveyaunce

From convey +‎ -ance.

• IPA^(key): /kənˈveɪəns/

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conveyance (countable and uncountable, plural conveyances)

1. An act or instance of conveying.
   • 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], “I. Being Introductory.”, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series,  (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume I, Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 13:

     The times have changed in nothing more (we follow as we were wont the manuscript of Peter Pattieson,) than in the rapid conveyance of intelligence and communication betwixt one part of Scotland and another.

   • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

     Three in a hansom cab is not, under all circumstances, the most comfortable method of conveyance […]

   1. (archaic) A manner of conveying one's thoughts, a style of communication.
      • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

        She told me, not thinking I had been myself, that I was the prince's jester, that I was duller than a great thaw; huddling jest upon jest with such impossible conveyance upon me, that I stood like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at me.

2. A means of transporting, especially a vehicle.
   • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate , New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, , →OCLC, page 16:

     Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.

3. (law) An instrument transferring title of an object from one person or group of persons to another.

conveyance (third-person singular simple present conveyances, present participle conveyancing, simple past and past participle conveyanced)

1. (law, transitive) To transfer (the title) of an object from one person or group of persons to another.