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Portenance, -ans, n. Also: portin-, -yn-. [Late ME and e.m.E. portenaunce (Prompt. Parv.), var. of purtenance Purtena(u)nce n.] Pertinents, collectively. = Pertinence n. — 1389 Slater Early Sc. Texts No. 16.
Wyd al portenans commoditeis fredomys & esementys to tha fornemmyt landys … pertenand 1400 Ib. No. 50.
[To] gyfe … heritabil stat of al our landis of Innerdonyn wyth the portinans 1412 Melville Chart. 18.
Al my landis … with the portenance within the schirraydome of Fyf c1420 Wynt. viii 7088 (C) (see Pertinence n. 1 a coll. (c)).
Portynance 14.. Reg. Episc. Aberd. I 249.
Apon the landis of Lurgyndaspok as portenancez of the landis of Tirepressy
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