allegeance

See also: allégeance

English

Alternative forms

allegeaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English allegeaunce, alleggeaunce, from Old French alegeance.

Noun

allegeance (plural allegeances)

(obsolete) Alleviation, relief.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
  What bootes it him from death to be vnbound, / To be captiued in endlesse duraunce / Of sorrow and despaire without aleggeaunce?

Middle French

Etymology

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Noun

allegeance f (plural allegeances)

hommage

References

allegeance on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

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