Trance

Definitions

1. A tedious journey.
   dialectal
2. France.
   derogatory, offensive
3. A dazed or unconscious condition.
   countable
4. A state of awareness, concentration, or focus that filters experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being).
   countable
5. A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.
   countable
6. Ellipsis of trance music (“genre of electronic dance music”).
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“And he became very hungry, and would have⟳ eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance.”

“My soul was ravished quite as in a trance.”

“So saying, he led the way out through halls and trances that were weel kend to my gudesire, and into the auld oak parlour; […]”

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