rare. [a. F. tangence (1835 in Dict. Acad.), f. tangent adj.: see -ENCE.] The act or fact of touching, touch; point of contact.
1840. Blackw. Mag., XLVIII. 275. They [Correggio’s paintings] stand betwixt passion—the tangence of mentality and materiality, and the distinctly intellectual and moral.
