allegeance
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See also: allégeance
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- allegeaunce (obsolete)
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English allegeaunce, alleggeaunce, from Old French alegeance.
Noun
[edit]allegeance (plural allegeances)
- (obsolete) Alleviation, relief.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- What bootes it him from death to be vnbound, / To be captiued in endlesse duraunce / Of sorrow and despaire without aleggeaunce?
Etymology 2
[edit]See allegiance.
Noun
[edit]allegeance (countable and uncountable, plural allegeances)
- Obsolete spelling of allegiance.
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
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Noun
[edit]allegeance f (plural allegeances)
References
[edit]- allegeance on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
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