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Vinony

trance

noun

  1. genre of electronic dance music
  2. stupor, daze
  3. a sleeplike state (as of deep hypnosis) usually characterized by partly suspended animation with diminished or absent sensory and motor activity
  4. a state of profound abstraction or absorption
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verb

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Wiktionary

name

Etymology: Possibly a mix of trans + France.

  1. France.

noun

Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English traunce, trauncen, trancen (“to move about (?); to prance (?); to trample the ground”) (whence modern English trounce with the same senses, which see for more). The noun is probably derived from the verb.

  1. A tedious journey.

    “So saying, he led the way out through halls and trances that were weel kend to my gudesire, and into the auld oak parlour; […]”

verb

Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English traunce, trauncen, trancen (“to move about (?); to prance (?); to trample the ground”) (whence modern English trounce with the same senses, which see for more). The noun is probably derived from the verb.

  1. To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
  2. To pass across or over; to traverse.

    “Trance the world o'er.”

    “After the flitting of the bats, / When thickest dark did trance the sky, / She drew the casement-curtain by, / And glanced athwart the glooming flats.”

  3. To travel quickly over a long distance.