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Lawrence
Lawrence ♂ Anglicized spelling of Laurence. This is the usual spelling of the surname, and is now becoming increasingly common as a given name, especially in North America.
Pet forms: Larry, Lawrie. |
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PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Lawrence." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Lawrence." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Lawrence.html PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Lawrence." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Lawrence.html |
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Lawrence
Lawrence •abeyance, conveyance, purveyance
•creance • ambience
•irradiance, radiance
•expedience, obedience
•audience
•dalliance, mésalliance
•salience
•consilience, resilience
•emollience • ebullience
•convenience, lenience, provenience
•impercipience, incipience, percipience
•variance • experience
•luxuriance, prurience
•nescience • omniscience
•insouciance • deviance
•subservience • transience
•alliance, appliance, compliance, defiance, misalliance, neuroscience, reliance, science
•allowance
•annoyance, clairvoyance, flamboyance
•fluence, pursuance
•perpetuance • affluence • effluence
•mellifluence • confluence
•congruence • issuance • continuance
•disturbance
•attendance, dependence, interdependence, resplendence, superintendence, tendance, transcendence
•cadence
•antecedence, credence, impedance
•riddance • diffidence • confidence
•accidence • precedence • dissidence
•coincidence, incidence
•evidence
•improvidence, providence
•residence
•abidance, guidance, misguidance, subsidence
•correspondence, despondence
•accordance, concordance, discordance
•avoidance, voidance
•imprudence, jurisprudence, prudence
•impudence • abundance • elegance
•arrogance • extravagance
•allegiance • indigence
•counter-intelligence, intelligence
•negligence • diligence • intransigence
•exigence
•divulgence, effulgence, indulgence, refulgence
•convergence, divergence, emergence, insurgence, resurgence, submergence
•significance
•balance, counterbalance, imbalance, outbalance, valance
•parlance • repellence • semblance
•bivalence, covalence, surveillance, valence
•sibilance • jubilance • vigilance
•pestilence • silence • condolence
•virulence • ambulance • crapulence
•flatulence • feculence • petulance
•opulence • fraudulence • corpulence
•succulence, truculence
•turbulence • violence • redolence
•indolence • somnolence • excellence
•insolence • nonchalance
•benevolence, malevolence
•ambivalence, equivalence
•Clemence • vehemence
•conformance, outperformance, performance
•adamance • penance • ordinance
•eminence • imminence
•dominance, prominence
•abstinence • maintenance
•continence • countenance
•sustenance
•appurtenance, impertinence, pertinence
•provenance • ordnance • repugnance
•ordonnance • immanence
•impermanence, permanence
•assonance • dissonance • consonance
•governance • resonance • threepence
•halfpence • sixpence
•comeuppance, tuppence, twopence
•clarence, transparence
•aberrance, deterrence, inherence, Terence
•remembrance • entrance
•Behrens, forbearance
•fragrance • hindrance • recalcitrance
•abhorrence, Florence, Lawrence, Lorentz
•monstrance
•concurrence, co-occurrence, occurrence, recurrence
•encumbrance
•adherence, appearance, clearance, coherence, interference, perseverance
•assurance, durance, endurance, insurance
•exuberance, protuberance
•preponderance • transference
•deference, preference, reference
•difference • inference • conference
•sufferance • circumference
•belligerence • tolerance • ignorance
•temperance • utterance • furtherance
•irreverence, reverence, severance
•deliverance • renascence • absence
•acquiescence, adolescence, arborescence, coalescence, convalescence, deliquescence, effervescence, essence, evanescence, excrescence, florescence, fluorescence, incandescence, iridescence, juvenescence, luminescence, obsolescence, opalescence, phosphorescence, pubescence, putrescence, quiescence, quintessence, tumescence
•obeisance, Renaissance
•puissance
•impuissance, reminiscence
•beneficence, maleficence
•magnificence, munificence
•reconnaissance • concupiscence
•reticence
•licence, license
•nonsense
•nuisance, translucence
•innocence • conversance • sentience
•impatience, patience
•conscience
•repentance, sentence
•acceptance • acquaintance
•acquittance, admittance, intermittence, pittance, quittance, remittance
•assistance, coexistence, consistence, distance, existence, insistence, outdistance, persistence, resistance, subsistence
•instance • exorbitance
•concomitance
•impenitence, penitence
•appetence
•competence, omnicompetence
•inheritance • capacitance • hesitance
•Constance • importance • potence
•conductance, inductance, reluctance
•substance • circumstance
•omnipotence • impotence
•inadvertence • grievance
•irrelevance, relevance
•connivance, contrivance
•observance • sequence • consequence
•subsequence • eloquence
•grandiloquence, magniloquence
•brilliance • poignance
•omnipresence, pleasance, presence
•complaisance • malfeasance
•incognizance, recognizance
•usance • recusance
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"Lawrence." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Lawrence." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Lawrence.html "Lawrence." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Lawrence.html |
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