participancy

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English

Noun

participancy (countable and uncountable, plural participancies)

  1. Alternative form of participance (participation)
    • 1854, Thomas Hughes Milner, Inquiry respecting the Church of Christ, page 50:
      Here it is most expressly set forth that there is to be a general participancy in the ministry —an unlimited co-operation in the fulfilment of the offices of the church—and that on the part of each according to the gift or gifts bestowed.
    • 1948, The Federal reporter. Second series - Volume 167, page 3:
      The finding is not binding on the absent beneficiaries nor on appellant, when the reserved determination of the participancies of the trust estate is litigated.
    • 1999, Geert Jacobs, Preformulating the News:
      Following Levinson's scheme, I still have to discuss the questions of participancy and channel-linkage for h2. In view of the fact that Levinson's concept of participancy is largely unexplicated, it is rather difficult to decide if h2 is a participant or not.
    • 2011, Booth Tarkington, The Turmoil: A Novel, page 231:
      He had told Edith, after his ineffective effort to be useful in her affairs, that he had decided that he was "a member of the family"; but he appeared to have relapsed to the retired list after that one attempt at participancy—he was far enough detached from membership now.