saliaunce

English

Etymology

See sally.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɪliəns/

Noun

saliaunce (countable and uncountable, plural saliaunces)

1. Obsolete spelling of salience (“onslaught”).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 29:

     with so fierce saliaunce

References

• “saliaunce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.