Definitions for tendances

tendances tend·ance

Spelling: [ten-duh ns]
IPA: /ˈtɛn dəns/

Tendances is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 367 anagrams from letters in tendances (acdeennst).

Definitions for tendances

noun

  1. attention; care; ministration, as to the sick.
  2. Archaic. servants or attendants.

Origin of tendances

First recorded in 1565-75; aphetic variant of attendance

Examples for tendances

Long nights, too, at first with hourly tendance and then presently without.

As to the Rector's tendance of his child his tone was very cool and guarded.

Her simple, kindly nature had turned in solicitude and affection to this springing life that responded to her tendance.

He would accept no tendance but that of Mary Woodruff; to her, as to his children, he kept up the pretence of gout.

He had to go to the Rectory dinner-party, and leave his neophyte to the tendance of the Underwoods.

As to the rector's tendance of his child, his tone was very cool and guarded.

His love and His might guard the little one in the tendance of its parents.

Her tendance revived Wallace, but she kept up the outward pretence that he was dead.

Mrs. Transome yielded at last, and let Esther soothe her with a daughter's tendance.

His brother will take it well of thee if thou wilt stay with him till some tendance can be had.

Word Value for tendances
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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