different between ventage vs centage

ventage

English

Etymology

vent +? -age

Noun

ventage (plural ventages)

  1. A puff of air coming through a hole in a wind instrument
    • 1602 : William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act III scene 2
      Govern these ventages with
      your fingers and thumb, give it breath with your
      mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music.
  2. venting (the act by which something is vented)

Anagrams

  • vegetan

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centage

English

Etymology

cent +? -age?

Noun

centage (plural centages)

  1. Rate by the hundred; percentage.
    • 1848, Thomas Chalmers, Miscellanies: Embracing Reviews, Essays, and Addresses (page 527)
      It would mightily advance the cause, and make direct taxation greatly more popular, were it carried into effect by a small centage on property, rather than by a centage twenty times larger on income — in other words were the tax on property alone, and not at all on income.

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