perceiverance

== English == === Etymology === Apparently from perceiver +‎ -ance, perhaps after perseverance. Compare later perceivance. === Noun === perceiverance (uncountable) (obsolete) Perception, awareness. [15th–17th c.] 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface: But, as (by degrees) Number did come to our perceiuerance: So, by visible formes, we are holpen to imagine, what our Line Mathematicall, is.