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mountenances

mountenances is the plural of mountenance.

Meaning of mountenance

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

Questions about mountenances

What is mountenances the plural of?
Mountenances is the plural of mountenance.

Words near mountenances in the dictionary

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

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