Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
manurance. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
manurance, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
manurance in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
manurance you have here. The definition of the word
manurance will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
manurance, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Etymology
From manure + -ance.
Noun
manurance (countable and uncountable, plural manurances)
- (obsolete) cultivation
1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande ">…], Dublin: Societie of Stationers, ">…], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: Society of Stationers, Hibernia Press, y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:although there should none of them fall by the sword , nor be saine by the soldier , yett thus beinge keepte from manurance , and theire cattle from runinge abroade
1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: ">…] for Henrie Tomes, , →OCLC:For as the wronging or cherishing of seeds or young plants is that that is most important to their thriving, and as it was noted that the first six kings being in truth as tutors of the state of Rome in the infancy thereof was the principal cause of the immense greatness of that state which followed, so the culture and manurance of minds in youth hath such a forcible (though unseen) operation, as hardly any length of time or contention of labour can countervail it afterwards.
References