allegeance
See also: allégeance
English
Alternative forms
- allegeaunce (obsolete)
Etymology 1
From Middle English allegeaunce, alleggeaunce, from Old French alegeance.
Noun
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
See allegiance.
Noun
allegeance (countable and uncountable, plural allegeances)
- Obsolete spelling of allegiance.
Middle French
Etymology
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Noun
allegeance f (plural allegeances)
References
- allegeance on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)