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sovenance

sovenance noun: memory, remembrance.

Noun

sovenance (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Memory, remembrance.
    • worldly sovenance he mustforsay1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC
    • Her light behauiour, and loose dalliaunce / Gaue wondrous great contentment to the knight, / That of his way he had no souenaunce […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin of sovenance

From Old French souvenance, from the verb sovenir.

Questions about sovenance

What does sovenance mean?
Sovenance means memory, remembrance.
What part of speech is sovenance?
Sovenance is a noun.

Words near sovenance in the dictionary

  1. sov'reign
  2. Sova
  3. Sovas
  4. SovCit
  5. SovCits
  6. sovenance
  7. sovenaunce
  8. sovenaunces
  9. soveraign
  10. soveraigne
  11. soveraigns

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