Attendance \At*tend"ance\, n. [OE. attendance, OF. atendance, fr. atendre, F. attendre. See Attend, v. t.]

1. Attention; regard; careful application. [Obs.]

Till I come, give attendance to reading. --1 Tim. iv. 13.

2. The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence.

Constant attendance at church three times a day. --Fielding.

3. Waiting for; expectation. [Obs.]

Languishing attendance and expectation of death. --Hooker.

4. The persons attending; a retinue; attendants.

If your stray attendance by yet lodged. --Milton.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)