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guidance|ˈgaɪdəns|
[f. guide v. + -ance.]
1. The action of guiding; guiding or directing agency; leadership, direction.
a. with reference to a journey or movement.
1590Spenser F.Q. iii. iv. 6 So forth she rode..Following the guydance of her blinded guest. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. I. (1846) V. 17 They steered by the guidance of the stars. 1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 219 Mounting the heckles, and carrying them along the chainway by the guidance of parallel bars. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xi. 74 We trusted to our own muscles to make good any mistake in the way of guidance. 1870Bryant Iliad I. vi. 199 At Lycia he arrived Under the favoring guidance of the gods.
(b) spec. in Astronautics.
1962F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics p. vii, High-thrust space carrier vehicles with accurate guidance systems. 1969Sunday Times 13 July 13/2 Guidance system, the system which measures and evaluates flight information, correlates this with target data, converts the results into the conditions necessary to achieve the desired flight path and communicates this data in the form of commands to the flight control system. 1970Guardian 18 Apr. 1/1 Guidance control officers reported..that it had gone well, putting the spacecraft within a hundredth of the 6.5 re-entry angle.
fig.1725Pope Odyss. viii. 423 Wisdom's sacred guidance he pursues. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 11 It was time to trust firmly to the free understanding of men for guidance in the voyage after truth.
b. with reference to conduct or procedure.
1538Bale Thre Lawes 50 For gydaunce of mankynde. 1672T. Duning in Essex Papers (Camden) I. 39 Yr Excellenc..whose influenc we must have to sho, and imploring the guidanc and blessing of God on yrs. 1775Burke Corr. (1844) II. 72 God and nature never made them to think or to act without guidance and direction. 1804W. Tennant Ind. Recreat. (ed. 2) I. 331 Whose elevated rank..gave him in a great measure the guidance of fashion. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 3 Instructions..for the guidance of his son. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. III. xvii. 496 An English sovereign could know no guidance but the existing law. 1865Bushnell Vicar. Sacr. iv. (1866) 55 Angels..ministering unseen, where they may, in warnings and secret guidances. 1874Green Short Hist. vii. §4. 375 The Huguenots..had become a formidable party under the guidance of the Admiral Coligny.
c. With reference to problems and advice relating to education, marriage, careers, etc. Also attrib.
1927, etc. [see child guidance s.v. child n. 22]. 1935, etc. [see marriage guidance s.v. marriage 8]. 1947Erickson & Smith Organ. & Admin. Guidance Services viii. 207 The administrator should recognize the necessity for beginning the guidance program at a point consistent with its existing stage of development. The nature and amount of guidance training present among staff members and the facilities that the school has for proceeding with the extension and refinement of guidance services must be considered. 1951M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 42/1 Vocational-guidance investigation has turned up the curious fact that executives..do show an aptitude for words. 1957Encycl. Brit. XII. 295/2 The primary problem of vocational guidance is, given a person, to find the most suitable occupation. 1967Medium ævum XXXVI. 144 Benoit and Guido..characterized him [sc. Calkas] as the guidance counsellor. 1968Lancet 9 Mar. 518/2, 41% [of medical students] acknowledged that they had been given guidance about sexual difficulties unrelated to marriage.
2. quasi-concr. Something which guides or leads.
1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 40 Walks..are as so many Guidances and Means to conduct us throughout a Garden. 1840Carylye Heroes (1858) 304 The Writer of a Book..wanders like a wild Ishmaelite, in a world of which he is as the spiritual light, either the guidance or the misguidance! 1899Expositor Nov. 405 We have..a great picture of His attitude towards the other religions of the world and therein a guidance for ourselves. |
