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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  -ence \-ence\ [F. -ence, L. -entia.]
     A noun suffix signifying action, state, or quality; also,
     that which relates to the action or state; as in emergence,
     diffidence, diligence, influence, difference, excellence. See
     {-ance}.

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