fiaunce

Middle English

Noun

fiaunce

1. confidence; fealty
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, printed by William Caxton, page a iii (leaf 20 recto):

     And whan syre Ector was come, he made fyaũce to the kyng for to nourisshe the child lyke as the Kynge desyred

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