Definition of "rance" [rance]

• A type of coloured marble from Belgium. Rance is red and often has white or blue graining. (noun)
• A prop or shore. (noun)
• A round or spreader between the legs of a chair. (noun)

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• "In the manner of Derrida insisting that différance is not a concept, Nagarjuna insisted that anyone who accepted his philosophy as a belief was incurably insane."
• "Although the cultural dimension of nature's meaning has always been a product of human artifice, the scope of physical changes underway in today's global weather systems, increasingly ubiquitous genetically modified organisms, and in continually shrinking habitat for endangered species all suggest that nature's material "différance" is being effaced by humanity on an unprecedented scale."
• "What I have called "pacigérance" is clearly part of the larger struggle for civilization which is progressing on an increasingly broad front: it is civilization's battle between rule by law and rule by power."