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ence(dictionary)
Grupo Empresarial Ence, S.A.(finance)

ence (iou)



-ence suffix.
[French from Latin (i) -entia, from pres. ppl stems in -ent- -ENT, (ii) -antia: see -ANCE.]
Forming nouns of quality (or instances of it), as congruence, impertinence, sapience, or of action, as reference, reminiscence. Since 16 many words ending in -ance from French have been altered back to -ence after Latin, and more recent words have taken -ance or -ence according to the Latin vowel (hence much inconsistency, as dependence or dependance, resistance, subsistence). Cf. -ENCY.