dividence
English
Etymology
From Latin dīvidēns, present participle of dīvidō (“to divide”). Perhaps modelled on Italian dividenza.
Noun
dividence (countable and uncountable, plural dividences)
- (obsolete, rare) Division.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.182:
- this commixture, dividence, and sharing of goods, this joyning wealth to wealth, and that the riches of one shall be the povertie of another, doth exceedingly distemper and distract all brotherly alliance […].
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