saliaunce
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See sally.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]saliaunce (countable and uncountable, plural saliaunces)
- Obsolete spelling of salience (“onslaught”).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 29:
- with so fierce saliaunce
References
[edit]- “saliaunce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.