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From sort (verb).
sortance
- (obsolete) fittingness; appropriateness; seemliness
ca 1596, William Shakespeare, 2 KING HENRY IV act iv,i:Here doth he wish his person, with such powers
As might hold sortance with his quality,
The which he could not levy; whereupon
He is retired, to ripe his growing fortunes,
To Scotland...
- Screaton, ancestor, Canteros, Careston, enactors, carstone, Castrone, Conatser, Rostance, sarconet, entosarc