conveyance
/kənˈveɪəns/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.79 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An instrument transferring title of an object from one person or group of persons to another.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The times have changed in nothing more (we follow as we were wont the manuscript of Peter Pattieson,) than in the rapid conveyance of intelligence and communication betwixt one part of Scotland and another."
- "Three in a hansom cab is not, under all circumstances, the most comfortable method of conveyance […]"
- "How Cownterfet Cowntenaunce of the new get / With Crafty Conueyauance dothe smater and flater, / And Cloked Collucyoun is brought in to clater / With Courtely Abusyoun; […]"
- "She told me, not thinking I had been myself, that I was the prince's jester, that I was duller than a great thaw; huddling jest upon jest with such impossible conveyance upon me, that I stood like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at me."
- "Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: conveiance,conveyaunce
- Suffix: convey