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Examples of purveyance
purveyance
The ceaseless purveyance of tawdry trinkets by commentators between overs was one of the more undignified features of the World Cup.
From the telegraph.co.uk
And what is takes these days is the purveyance of deliberate falsehoods, delivering to the rabble whatever factitious nonsense Romney's focus groups say they want to hear.
From the economist.com
Though a perfectly legitimate method of raising money, the peers felt that the purveyance had become far too burdensome and compensation was in many cases inadequate or missing entirely.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In 1571 he was elected to parliament as a member for Plymouth and in 1572 for Queenborough and controversially argued for the crown prerogative in the matter of royal licenses for purveyance.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- The act of supplying something
- Purveyance is the right of the Crown to requisition goods and services for royal use, and was developed in England over the course of the late eleventh through the fourteenth centuries. ...
