operancy rare.
(ˈɒpərənsɪ)
[f. as prec. + -ancy.]
The quality or condition of being operant; operance, operation.
| 1810 Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 303 Taylor..is always too shy of this ‘Grace of God’: he..never admits it any separate operancy per se. 1847–9 Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 511/2 Function..implying by that word an immediate organic operancy. 1878 Dowden Stud. Lit. 127 When all intellection and all operancy of will seem to be suspended. |