chevisance
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- chevisaunce (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Old French chevisance, from chevir. The 'chivalrous adventure' sense is thought to be first used by Edmund Spenser, who incorrectly linked chevisance to Old French chevalerie (“chivalry”).
Noun[edit]
chevisance (countable and uncountable, plural chevisances)
- (obsolete) Help, remedy; a resource or solution.
- (obsolete) The raising of money; money raised or lent for some purpose.
- (obsolete) Chivalrous adventure.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Fortune, the foe of famous cheuisaunce / Seldome (said Guyon) yields to vertue aide, / But in her way throwes mischiefe and mischaunce, / Whereby her course is stopt, and passage staid.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book IV, lxxxi:
- Ah! be it not pardie declared in France, / Or elsewhere told where court'sy is in prize, // That we forsook so fair a chevisance, / For doubt or fear that might from fight arise.
- (obsolete) A bargain or contract; an agreement about a matter in dispute, such as a debt; a business compact.
- (obsolete) An unlawful agreement or contract.
Anagrams[edit]
Old French[edit]
Noun[edit]
chevisance oblique singular, f (oblique plural chevisances, nominative singular chevisance, nominative plural chevisances)
References[edit]
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (chevisance)