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語源

convey +‎ -ance

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /kənˈveɪəns/, /kənˈveɪn̩s/, /ˈkɒnˌveɪn̩s/

名詞

conveyance (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 conveyances)

1. An act or instance of conveying.
   • 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], “I. Being Introductory.”, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 13:

     The times have changed in nothing more (we follow as we were wont the manuscript of Peter Pattieson,) than in the rapid conveyance of intelligence and communication betwixt one part of Scotland and another.

   1. (archaic) A manner of conveying one's thoughts, a style of communication.
      • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

        She told me, not thinking I had been myself, that I was the prince's jester, that I was duller than a great thaw; huddling jest upon jest with such impossible conveyance upon me, that I stood like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at me.

2. A means of transporting, especially a vehicle.
   • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:

     Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.

3. (law) An instrument transferring title of an object from one person or group of persons to another.

動詞

conveyance (三人称単数 現在形 conveyances, 現在分詞 conveyancing, 過去形および過去分詞形 conveyanced)

1. (law, transitive) To transfer (the title) of an object from one person or group of persons to another.