A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg pernancy PRONUNCIATION: (PUHR-nuhn-see) MEANING: noun: A taking or receiving of rent, profit, etc. ETYMOLOGY: From Anglo-French pernance, by switching of sounds of prenance (taking), from prendre, from Latin prehendere (to seize). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghend-/ghed- (to seize or to take), which is also the source of pry, prey, spree, reprise, surprise, osprey, prison, reprehend, impregnable, impresa, and prise. Earliest documented use: 1626. USAGE: For he was not to pass away the pernancy of the profits. NG Jones; Uses and Automatic Resulting Trusts of Freehold; The Cambridge Law Journal (UK); Mar 2013. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent. -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel prize in literature (1872-1970)
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