mountenance

English

Etymology

Alteration of mountance, after maintenance.

Noun

mountenance (plural mountenances)

1. (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 […]