allegeance
See also: allégeance
English
Alternative forms
- allegeaunce (obsolete)
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French alegeance.
Noun
allegeance (plural allegeances)
- (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?
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
Middle French
Noun
allegeance f (plural allegeances)
References
- allegeance on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)