(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:23:05

-en*cy (?). [L. -entia.]

A noun suffix having much the same meaning as -ence, but more commonly signifying the quality or state; as, emergency, efficiency. See -ancy.

 

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