Obs. [f. YIELD v. + -ANCE. (A favorite word with Bp. Joseph Hall.)] The action of yielding, in various senses.
1. Surrender, submission, compliance.
1610. Bp. Hall, Apol. Brownists, 2. The spirits of these men are too-well knowne, to admit any expectation of yeeldance. Ibid. (1633), Hard Texts, Rom. vii. 8. Had not the law strictly restrained us from the yeildance unto sinne.
1657. Trapp, Comm. Job ix. 14, 87. Seeking to disarm his indignation by an humble yeildance.
a. 1716. South, Serm., Gal. ii. 5 (1727), V. 490. For if the things under Debate be given up to the Adversary, it must be upon one of these two Accounts; either, 1. That the Persons who thus yield them up, judge them unfit to be retained. Or, 2. That they find themselves unable to retain them; one or both of these must of necessity be implied in such a Yieldance.
b. Granting, allowance.
a. 1656. Bp. Hall, Specialities Life, Rem. Wks. (1660), 23. If … I might draw him to a willing yieldance of that parcell of my due maintenance, which was kept back from my not over-deserving predecessor.
2. Production, yield.
a. 1656. Bp. Hall, Serm., Ps. cvii. 34, Wks. 1662, III. 197. How should the corn, wine, oyl, be had without the yieldance of the earth?
1668. Steele, Husbandman’s Calling, vii. 183. When it [sc. harvest] comes, sometimes the poor yieldance of it utterly disappoints him.
