currence

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin currentia + -ence,[1] from Latin currō (“to run”).

Noun

currence (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The quality of being current (generally circulated and accepted); currency, currentness.
    • 1854 January, “The Decline and Fall of the Corporation of London”, in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume XLIV, number CCLXXXIX, London: John W. Parker and Son, →OCLC, page 6:
      And the time consumed in discussion will certainly not have been lost, if it only strips the argument of all sentimentalism and false currence, and leaves it to be judged by good sense and sound reason.

References

  1. ^ “currence, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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