allegeance

See also: allégeance

English

Alternative forms

• allegeaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French alegeance.

Noun

allegeance (plural allegeances)

1. (obsolete) Alleviation, relief.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:

     What bootes it him from death to be vnbound, / To be captiued in endlesse duraunce / Of sorrow and despaire without aleggeaunce?

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Middle French

Noun

allegeance f (plural allegeances)

1. hommage

References

• allegeance on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)