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allegeances

allegeances is the plural of allegeance.

Meaning of allegeance

Noun

allegeance (plural allegeances)

  1. (obsolete) Alleviation, relief.
    • What bootes it him from death to be vnbound, / To be captiued in endlesse duraunce / Of sorrow and despaire without aleggeaunce?1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about allegeances

What is allegeances the plural of?
Allegeances is the plural of allegeance.

Words near allegeances in the dictionary

  1. allegator
  2. allegators
  3. allege
  4. allegeable
  5. allegeance
  6. allegeances
  7. allegeaunce
  8. allegeaunces
  9. alleged
  10. allegededly
  11. allegedly

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