Noun: currence
Sample Sentences
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And the time consumed in discussion will certainly not have been lost, if it only strips the argument of all sentimentalism and false currence, and leaves it to be judged by good sense and sound reason. [1854 January, “The Decline and Fall of the Corporation of London”, in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume XLIV, number CCLXXXIX, London: John W. Parker and Son, →OCLC, page 6:]
Nouns inflected like currence
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin currentia + -ence, from Latin currō (“to run”). See: Latin Nouns '
currentia', Latin Nouns '
currō'.