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Middle English
Etymology
From parfourmen + -aunce.
Noun
parfourmaunce
- performance (accomplishment, completion)
1494, Robert Fabyan, The New Chronicles of England and France, in Two Parts, London: F. C. and J. Rivington; T. Payne; Wilkie and Robinson; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Co.; Cadell and Davies; J. Mawman; and J. Johnson and Co., published 1811, page 54:For the parfourmaunce of the rest or other dele of the same, I here with al humblenesse salute her with the. iiii. Ioye of the forenamed. vii. Ioyes, yͤ whiche begynneth.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)