Home › Words › S › sortancesortancesortance means fittingness; appropriateness; seemliness.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, sortance ranks #2,614 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom sort (verb).nounfittingness; appropriateness; seemlinesse.g.“Here doth he wish his person, with such powers As might hold sortance with his quality, The which he could not levy; whereupon He is retired, to ripe his growing fortunes, To Scotland...” — ca 1596, William Shakespeare, 2 KING HENRY IV act iv,i:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).