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Definition trance
Etymology 1
From Middle English traunce, from Anglo-Norman transe (“fear of coming evil; passage from life to death”), from transir (“to be numb with fear; to die, pass on”), from Latin tr?nse? (“to cross over”).
Noun
trance (countable and uncountable, plural trances)
- (countable) A dazed or unconscious condition.
- (countable) A state of awareness, concentration, and/or focus that filters experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being).
- (countable, psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.
- (uncountable, music) Short for trance music (“genre of electronic dance music”).
Verb
trance (third-person singular simple present trances, present participle trancing, simple past and past participle tranced)
- (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) be in a trance; to entrance.
Etymology 2
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), possibly either:
The noun is probably derived from the verb.
Verb
trance (third-person singular simple present trances, present participle trancing, simple past and past participle tranced) (obsolete except Britain, dialectal)
- (intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
- (intransitive) To pass across or over; to traverse.
- (intransitive) To travel quickly over a long distance.
Noun
trance (plural trances)
- (obsolete except Britain, dialectal) A tedious journey.
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