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The act of supplying something
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purveyance
Word definitions for purveyance in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Purveyance is the right of the Crown to requisition goods and services for royal use, and was developed in England over the course of the late eleventh through the fourteenth centuries. In theory, the king's prerogative allowed him to collect goods needed ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of purveying 2 (context British English) The prerogative of the Crown to requisition goods and services for royal use
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of supplying something
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Purveyance \Pur*vey"ance\, n. [Cf. F. pourvoyance.] The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management. --Chaucer. The ill purveyance of his page. --Spenser. That which is provided; provisions; food. (Eng. Law) ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Anglo-French purveance and directly from Old French porveance , from Latin providentia (see providence ).
Usage examples of purveyance.
That it shall come, therefore the purveyance Wot it before, withouten ignorance.
Whereby, as it cometh to pass that no buyer shall make any great journey in the purveyance of his necessities, so no occupier shall have occasion to travel far off with his commodities, except it be to seek for the highest prices, which commonly are near unto great cities, where roundand speediest utterranceis always to be had.
And so it was done, and all manner of purveyance purveyed, that there lacked nothing that might be gotten of tame nor wild for gold or silver.