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Tarriance

Tarriance \Tar"ri*ance\, n. The act or time of tarrying; delay; lateness. [Archaic]
--Shak.

And after two days' tarriance there, returned.
--Tennyson.

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tarriance

n. (context obsolete rare English) The act of tarrying; dalliance

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tarriance

n. the act of tarrying [syn: lingering]

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A letter written by Martha Yeardley from this city, contains some notice of the social and religious life by which their tarriance in foreign cities was characterised, and of her own peculiar position as a gospel minister.