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/kˈərənsi/ Listen

noun

Currency n. (pl. currencies)

A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time. (Obs.)

The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes.

That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money.

Fluency; readiness of utterance. (Obs.)

Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued. "He... takes greatness of kingdoms according to their bulk and currency, and not after intrinsic value." "The bare name of Englishman... too often gave a transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful."

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"Currency" Quotes from Famous Books

... of an author is settled by the slow consensus of mankind in disregard of the critics; but the rank is after all determined by the few best minds of any given age, and the popular judgment has very little to do with it. Immediate popularity, or currency, is a nearly valueless criterion of merit. The settling of high rank even in the popular mind does not necessarily give currency; the so-called best authors are not those most widely read at any given time. Some who attain the position of classics are ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... king determined to take account of his servants during the currency of their work, and before the final winding up of their engagement, so the King Eternal in various ways and at various periods takes account of men, especially of those who know his word, and belong externally to his Church. One by one the servants ...

— The Parables of Our Lord • William Arnot

... achievements of Glorious John, one experiences a queer revulsion of the currency in the veins in passing to the small doings of Messrs Betterton, Ogle, and Co., in 1737 and 1741; and again, to the still smaller of Mr Lipscomb in 1795, in the way of modernizations of Chaucer. Who was Mr Betterton, nobody, we presume, ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 • Various

... to convince the astonished clerk that Mr. Bangs actually wished five thousand dollars in currency, but he finally ...

— Galusha the Magnificent • Joseph C. Lincoln

... at once into complicated difficulties with reference to the Apocalypse. The fourth gospel, if it does not unmistakably announce itself as the work of John, at least professes to be Johannine; and it cannot for a moment be supposed that such a book, making such claims, could have gained currency during John's lifetime without calling forth his indignant protest. For, in reality, no book in the New Testament collection would so completely have shocked the prejudices of the Johannine party. John's own views are well known ...

— The Unseen World and Other Essays • John Fiske

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