Crossword-Solution: PURVEYANCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Purveyance | n. | The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management. |
| Purveyance | n. | That which is provided; provisions; food. |
| Purveyance | n. | A providing necessaries for the sovereign by buying them at an appraised value in preference to all others, and oven without the owner's consent. This was formerly a royal prerogative, but has long been abolished. |
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| the act of supplying something | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
VEIIDN
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with PURVEYANCE (5)
More potent intoxicants these than any that need licenses for their purveyance, responsible--see the poets--for no end of human foolishness.
From a man be entered into the sea he shall pass till one of the havens of Lumbardy, for there is the best making of purveyance of victuals; or he may pass to Genoa or Venice or some other.
The Destiny, minister general, That executeth in the world o’er all The purveyance*, that God hath seen beforn; *foreordination So strong it is, that though the world had sworn The contrary of a thing by yea or nay, Yet some time it shall fallen on a day That falleth not eft* in a thousand year.
And therefore of His wise purveyance* *providence He hath so well beset* his ordinance, That species of things and progressions Shallen endure by successions, And not etern, withouten any lie: This mayst thou understand and see at eye.
The same accord is sworn on either side; Now, fair Constance, Almighty God thee guide! Now woulde some men waiten, as I guess, That I should tellen all the purveyance*, *provision The which the emperor of his noblesse Hath shapen* for his daughter, Dame Constance.