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