habundance

habundance (plural habundances)

1. Alternative form of aboundance
   • Chaucer: "Thow hast yit manye habundances of thynges."

Old French habundance.

habundance f (plural habundances)

1. Alternative spelling of abondance
   • a. 1565, Étienne Médicis, Le Livre de Podio; republished as Augustin Chassaing, editor, Le Livre de Podio, ou Chroniques d’Étienne Médicis bourgeois du Puy, volume 2, 1874, page 156:

     Grande habundance de peuple, grande habundance de merciers portant indicible quantité d’ymages & autres denrées, logés par tous endroits autour du Puy & dans la ville & especialement devant l’eglise des Jacopins, lesquels faysoit moult beau voir; […]

     Great abundance of people, great abundance of merchants carrying an indescribable quantity of images and other goods, lodged in every place around Puy and in the city and especially before the Dominican church, which things made a very beautiful sight; […]

See abondance. The h is unetymological.

habundance oblique singular, f (oblique plural habundances, nominative singular habundance, nominative plural habundances)

1. Alternative form of abondance