allegeance

See also: allégeance

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French alegeance.

Noun

allegeance (plural allegeances)

  1. (obsolete) Alleviation, relief.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
      What bootes it him from death to be vnbound, / To be captiued in endlesse duraunce / Of sorrow and despaire without aleggeaunce?

Middle French

Noun

allegeance f (plural allegeances)

  1. hommage

References
  • allegeance on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) (in French)
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