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mountenance

mountenance noun: a given amount, value, or extent of time or distance.

Noun

mountenance (plural mountenances)

  1. (obsolete) A given amount, value, or extent of time or distance.
    • This said, they both a furlongs mountenance / Retyrd their steeds, to ronne in euen race […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of mountenance

pluralmountenances

Origin of mountenance

Alteration of mountance, after maintenance.

Questions about mountenance

What does mountenance mean?
Mountenance means a given amount, value, or extent of time or distance.
What part of speech is mountenance?
Mountenance is a noun.
What is the plural of mountenance?
The plural of mountenance is mountenances.

Words near mountenance in the dictionary

  1. mounted police
  2. mounted St. George
  3. mounted the high horse
  4. mounted up
  5. mountee
  6. mountenance
  7. mountenances
  8. mounter
  9. mounters
  10. mountest
  11. mounteth

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