different between squinancy vs squinance

English

squinancy (countable and uncountable, plural squinancies)

Alternative form of squinance
- And it is used for squinancies and inflammations in the throat ; whereby it seemeth to have a mollifying and lenifying virtue

French esquinancie, Old French squinance, esquinance. See quinsy.

squinance (countable and uncountable, plural squinances)

(medicine, obsolete) The quinsy.
(obsolete) A European perennial herb (Asperula cynanchica) with narrowly linear whorled leaves, formerly thought to cure the quinsy; quincewort.

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