portance

From Middle French portance (“a carrying, support”), from porter (“to carry”), from Latin portare (“carry, bear, convey”).

portance (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The manner in which one carries oneself; behaviour.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     […] for in court gay portaunce he perceiu'd, / And gallant shew to be in greatest gree […]

• port (also a dated/archaic sense)

• Caperton, co-parent, coparent, rent-a-cop

porter +‎ -ance

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portance f (plural portances)

1. lift (upward force, such as that which keeps an aircraft aloft)
2. bearing pressure

• “portance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• coparent