tendance

[ ten-duh ns ]

/ ˈtɛn dəns /

attention; care; ministration, as to the sick.

Archaic. servants or attendants.

Origin of tendance

First recorded in 1565–75; aphetic variant of attendance

Tendance upon the garden under the strait shadow of wall was to him, not a duty, not a pastime, but a ritual.

Tropic Days |E. J. Banfield
His love and His might guard the little one in the tendance of its parents.

The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians |G. G. Findlay
As to the rector's tendance of his child, his tone was very cool and guarded.

Robert Elsmere |Mrs. Humphry Ward
As to the Rector's tendance of his child his tone was very cool and guarded.

Robert Elsmere |Mrs. Humphry Ward

He had to go to the Rectory dinner-party, and leave his neophyte to the tendance of the Underwoods.

The Pillars of the House, Vol. I (of 2) |Charlotte M. Yonge

tendance

/ (ˈtɛndəns) /

rare care and attention; ministration

obsolete attendants collectively