The state or condition of being attached or dependent; the quality of being subordinate or supplementary.
From 'append' (Latin appendere) plus -ance (suffix creating nouns from adjectives), meaning the state of being appended or attached.
Appendance describes a relationship of dependency or subordination, which is why historians use it to describe how colonies existed in 'appendance' to empires—not independent, but attached.
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