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Are we in agreeance?
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2010/02/24 - 7:13pm
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I would appreciate some input on the use of the word agreeance.

Is it a word?
Is it just poor english?
Is it simply out of date?
Was it replaced by "agreement" at some point?
Citations would be helpful as I am trying to settle an argument.

Thanks!

Bonnie

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2010/02/26 - 12:27pm
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The OED lists it as obsolete, and defines as follows:

The act of agreeing; = AGREEMENT in several of its meanings.

But perhaps it is making a comeback.

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2010/02/26 - 2:20pm
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It appears to be popular in online agreement wording. The unlikelihood of anyone reading all of that gobbledegook makes it easy to perpetuate an otherwise obsolete word.

For citation, I can give you dictionary.com, although I think they might have left off the "bastardization" part.
agreeance at dictionary.com

Usage: considered obsolete and a bastardization of 'agreement'

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2010/02/27 - 3:40pm
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Probably another inadvertent portmanteau: in agreement/in accordance yields "in agreeance." Personally, I find it to be an agreegious faux pas.

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