parfourmaunce

Middle English

Etymology

From parfourmen +‎ -aunce.

Noun

parfourmaunce

  1. performance (accomplishment, completion)
    • 1494, Robert Fabyan, The New Chronicles of England and France, in Two Parts, London: […] F. C. and J. Rivington; T. Payne; Wilkie and Robinson; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Co.; Cadell and Davies; J. Mawman; and J. Johnson and Co., published 1811, page 54:
      For the parfourmaunce of the rest or other dele of the same, I here with al humblenesse salute her with the. iiii. Ioye of the forenamed. vii. Ioyes, yͤ whiche begynneth.
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