sovenance

English

Etymology

From Old French souvenance, from the verb sovenir.

Noun

sovenance (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Memory, remembrance.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:

     worldly sovenance he mustforsay

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Her light behauiour, and loose dalliaunce / Gaue wondrous great contentment to the knight, / That of his way he had no souenaunce […]