legiaunce
Middle English
editAlternative forms
edit- legance, legeaunce, leggaunce, lejance, liegeance, ligeance, ligeaunce, liegeaunce, lygeaunce, lygiauns
Etymology
editBorrowed from Old French legeance, ligeance, ligance; equivalent to lege (“liege”) + -aunce.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlegiaunce (uncountable)
- Allegiance, loyalty (including duty and responsibility to one's feudal superior).
- Synonym: alegiaunce
- The power exercised or available to a feudal liege or superior.
- Synonym: alegiaunce
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “liǧeaunce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-28.