Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CON-VEY'ANCE
CON-VEY'ANCE, n.
- The act of conveying; the act of bearing, carrying, or transporting, by land or water, or through any medium.
- The act of transmitting, or transferring, as titles, estates or claims from one person to another; transmission; transferrence, assignment.
- The instrument or means of passing a thing from place to place, or person to person; as, a vehicle is a conveyance for persons or goods; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water; a deed is a conveyance of land.
- Removal; the act of censoring or carrying. – Shak.
- Management; artifice; secret practices. [In this sense, obsolete.] – Spenser.
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