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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Purveyance  \Pur*vey"ance\,  n.  [Cf.  F.  pourvoyance.] 
  1.  The  act  or  process  of  providing  or  procuring;  providence; 
  foresight;  preparation;  management.  --Chaucer. 
 
  The  ill  purveyance  of  his  page.  --Spenser. 
 
  2.  That  which  is  provided;  provisions;  food. 
 
  3.  (Eng.  Law)  A  providing  necessaries  for  the  sovereign  by 
  buying  them  at  an  appraised  value  in  preference  to  all 
  others  and  oven  without  the  owner's  consent.  This  was 
  formerly  a  royal  prerogative,  but  has  long  been  abolished. 
  --Wharton. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  purveyance 
  n  :  the  act  of  supplying  something 




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