tendance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   archaic: care, attendance, or the act of tending to someone or something

   A contemplative life still requires food, health, and bodily tendance.

2. 2
   noun

   archaic: attendants or people in attendance

   The ruler entered with a large tendance behind him.

From tend in the sense "attend to, care for" + -ance, on the model of attendance.

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