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allegeaunce

allegeaunce is the obsolete form 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

Forms of allegeaunce

pluralallegeaunces

Questions about allegeaunce

What is allegeaunce the obsolete form of?
Allegeaunce is the obsolete form of allegeance.

Words near allegeaunce in the dictionary

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

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