Noun: trance
| Singular | trance |
| Plural | trances |
Sample Sentences
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And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 10:10:]
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My soul was ravished quite as in a trance. [1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XXXIX”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like trance
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English traunce, from Anglo-Norman transe (“fear of coming evil; passage from life to death”), from transir (“to be numb with fear; to die, pass on”), from Latin trānseō (“to cross over”). See: Middle English Nouns '
traunce', Latin Nouns '
trānseō'.
Verbs referencing "trance"
Finnish Nouns
trance, French Nouns
trance, Italian Nouns
trance, Spanish Nouns
trance, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
transe, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
transe, Finnish Nouns
transsi, Russian Nouns
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